This tutorial will show how to create and manipulate zone plot items for showing model attributes and results.
This tutorial demonstrates how you can add isosurfaces to your 3D Itasca model plots.
A tutorial showing how to create a structured mesh in FLAC3D 7.0 using the extruder pane.
A major use of DFN models for industrial applications is to evaluate permeability and flow structure in hardrock aquifers from geological observations of fracture networks. The relationship between the statistical fracture density distributions and permeability has been extensively studied, but there has been little interest in the spatial structure of DFN models, which is generally assumed to be spatially random (i.e., Poisson). In this paper, we compare the predictions of Poisson DFNs to new DFN models where fractures result from a growth process defined by simplified kinematic rules for nucleation, growth, and fracture arrest.
Caving, ground surface deformations and the influence of structures when mining by sublevel caving (paper in Swedish)
Numerical models are now used routinely to predict ground-water inflows to both surface and underground mines and to help design dewatering systems.