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[case] EmbeddedFracturePermeability

Permeability model as proposed by Olivella&Alonso.

This property must be a medium property, it computes the permeability in dependence of the strain

The model was proposed in [2] and it was further investigated in [31] .

The model takes the form of

\mathbf{k} = k_\text{m} \mathbf{I} + \frac{b}{a} \left( \frac{b^2}{12} - k_\text{m} \right) \left( \mathbf{I} - \mathbf{M} \right)

with

\mathbf{M} = \vec{n} \otimes \vec{n}

and

b = b_0 + \Delta b \\ \Delta b = a \langle \varepsilon_\text{n}- \varepsilon_0 \rangle

where

k_\text{m} permeability of undisturbed material
b fracture aperture
b_0 initial aperture
a mean fracture distance
\vec{n} fracture normal vector
\varepsilon_n strain in fracture normal direction
\varepsilon_0 threshold strain

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