On the Homogenization of Geological Fissured Systems With Curved non-periodic Cracks
Fernando A. Morales · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013
We analyze the steady fluid flow in a porous medium containing a network of thin fissures i.e. width $\mathcal{O}(ε)$, where all the cracks are generated by the rigid translation of a continuous piecewise $C^{1}$ functions in a fixed direction. The phenomenon is modeled in mixed variational formulation, using the stationary Darcy's law and setting coefficients of low resistance $\mathcal{O}(ε)$ on the network. The singularities are removed performing asymptotic analysis as $ε\rightarrow 0$ which yields an analogous system hosting only tangential flow in the fissures. Finally the fissures are collapsed into two dimensional manifolds.