Research Article

Interaction between Crustal-Scale Darcy and Hydrofracture Fluid Transport: A Numerical Study

Table 1

Symbols.

SymbolDescriptionSI unit

Flux
Permeabilitym2
Fluid viscosityPa·s
CompressibilityPa-1
Pressure diffusion coefficientm2/s
Porosity
Solid pressure Pa
Effective lithostatic pressure
Pa
Volumem3
Solid densitykg/m3
Fluid densitykg/m3
Gravitational accelerationm/s2
Times
Depthm
Model variable: Average P over cluster elements
Model variable: Element size
(subscript)Subscript indicates model parameters
Hurst exponent