Issue with defining different aperture values for deterministic and stochastic fractures

[nick-izu]

Hello Everyone,

I am working to generate deterministic fractures and stochastic fractures in the same domain. So the problem is that I can't seem to understand how to define the apertures for the deterministic fractures separately from that of stochastic fractures. Is there a way to assign specific transmissivities/apertures to deterministic fractures in the dfnWorks code?

Also, I understand that the gen_4_user_ellipses.dat file can be used to generate stochastic fractures and assign corresponding properties. So if I select an aperture option from the list below, will this option be used for both the deterministic fractures in the define_4_user_ellipses.dat and the stochastic fractures.

Aperture [m]
Mandatory parameter, and can be specified in several ways:

• 1)meanAperture and stdAperture for using LogNormal distribution.
• 2)apertureFromTransmissivity, first transmissivity is defined, and then,
  using a cubic law, the aperture is calculated;
• 3)constantAperture, all fractures, regardless of their size, will have
  the same aperture value;
• 4)lengthCorrelatedAperture, aperture is defined as a function of fracture size

Thanks!

[hymanjd]

We are going to modify how apertures are defined in a future release. All fracture family properties will be done in python.