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Mehrdad Khamforoush

Mehrdad Khamforoush

Academic rank: Associate Professor
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Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 21742691800
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Address: Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.
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Research

Title
Connectivity of an Anisotropic Three-Dimensional Fracture Network With Dimroth-Watson Orientation Distribution
Type
Presentation
Keywords
Percolation threshold; Discrete fracture networks; Excluded volume
Year
2010
Researchers Mehrdad Khamforoush

Abstract

The percolation properties of an anisotropic fracture network (AFN) made of mono-disperse hexagons have been studied. In this network, a family of fractures is directed around the Z axis. We call this model a monopolar anisotropic fracture network (MFN). The fractures in the aforementioned network are oriented anisotropically according to the Dimroth-Watson distribution. A finite-size scaling method is used to extrapolate the percolation thresholds of infinite networks in three spatial directions, i.e., the X, Y and Z directions. The influence of the angular dispersion parameter of the fracture orientation on percolation thresholds is examined in the three directions. It is shown that, as the anisotropy of a network increases, the percolation thresholds in the Z, X and Y directions are changed. Qualitatively, the percolation thresholds in the X and Y directions increase; however, in the Z direction the trend is reversed.