... media by applying effective permeability tensor in each grid block and allows the direct calculation of fluid flow velocity. Flux continuous control volume mixed finite element technique is used to simultaneously solve two coupled partial differential equations for fluid pressure and velocity. Effective...

... permeability. The effective permeability tensors are also determined for oriented fractures. Analyses by non-parametric regression show that the diagonal elements, k xx and k yy are highly affected by the angle between the oriented fractures and the pressure gradient, while the off-diagonal elements k...