A MOOSE Application to model flow and transport through lower dimensional rough fractures.
- The governing equations are solved with the MOOSE PorousFlow module and a detailed documentation is given on: https://mooseframework.org/modules/porous_flow/index.html.
- The focus of here is on the two-dimensional representation of fractures, which means in detail:
- read in aperture fields from text files
- apply aperture values to a 2D fracture domain and calculate permeability following the cubic law
- compute the respective Darcy velocities
Next to the necessary code to handle lower dimensional aperture fields, this repository provides example simulations of flow and transport through rough fractures. Such example input files are described here.
SaintBernard is a MOOSE application which requires to install MOOSE first. This can be done following: https://mooseframework.org/getting_started/index.html. As the governing equations are solved with the PorousFlow module, it should also be built and tested. For information on this, please visit: https://github.com/idaholab/moose/tree/next/modules/porous_flow.
After MOOSE and the PorousFlow module are successfully built and tested we can build SaintBernard, which is done by:
cd <path_to_saintbernard> ; make
To speed this up one can use make -j8, where 8 is the number of cores available. If the respective system has more or less this should be adapted.
To test if SaintBernard works fine on your system, please run the tests with the following command:
cd <path_to_saintbernard> ; ./run_tests
Here, the option for speedup is similar to above (e.g. ./run_tests -j8).
For more information on the MOOSE framework see: http://mooseframework.org
For contact please visit: https://geg.ethz.ch/philipp-schaedle/