Effect of Shear Displacement on the Directivity of Permeability in 3D Self-Affine Fractal Fractures

Figure 4

Frequency of aperture distribution at different for fracture surfaces of different JRCs: (a) ; (b) ; (c) ; (d) . The aperture fields are extracted from the models parallel to the shear direction with .

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