Flow and Transport in Fractured Porous Media

Dear Colleagues,

Research on flow and transport in fractured porous media has attracted strong interest for many decades. It is still of great importance for a broad range of natural and industrial applications today, such as unconventional oil and gas recovery, fine migration and formation damage in oil/gas/gas hydrate/geothermal reservoirs and aquifers, lost circulation in drilling engineering, solute and contaminant transport in groundwater, ions/tracers/reactive transport in fractured media at different scales, subsurface gas storage (CH₄, CO₂ and H₂), suspension/colloid/nano transport and retention in heterogeneous media, fracture network modelling, environmental engineering and modeling, mining engineering, etc.

However, these complex problems often exhibit multiscale, multiphase, and multiphysics transport characteristics. Motivation of thorough understanding of their physical principles and new development of predictive methods inspire active and innovative research in these areas. This Special Issue aims to highlight the most recent advances in flow and transport in fractured porous media, from a theoretical or practical perspective. Research topics include but are not limited to the areas mentioned above. Original research and review articles on mathematical modeling, numerical simulation, and experimental and field studies are all welcome.

Dr. Zhenjiang You
Dr. Chengyuan Xu
Prof. Dr. Jianchao Cai
Guest Editors

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