Numerical Simulation for Rock Fracture Viscoelastic Creep under Dry Conditions

Figure 15

Effect of the RMS value on the aperture field. and . The scale of the color bar is proportional to the RMS value. The number of grids in the and directions is 512. (a) Aperture field when , which corresponds to surface pair 2 in Table 2; (b) aperture field when , which corresponds to surface pair 6 in Table 2; (c) aperture field when , which corresponds to surface pair 7 in Table 2. The RMS value is increased from (a) to (c).

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