The Effect of Fracture Surface Roughness and Mechanical Aperture on the Onset of Nonlinear Flow Behaviors in 3D Self-Affine Rough Fractures

Figure 5

The relationship between the flow rate and hydraulic gradient at different s, taking mechanical as an example: (a) ; (b) ; (c) ; (d) .

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