Modeling and discretization of flow in porous media with thin, full‐tensor permeability inclusions

When modeling fluid flow in fractured reservoirs, it is common to represent the fractures as lower‐dimensional inclusions embedded in the host medium. Existing discretizations of flow in porous media with thin inclusions assume that the principal directions of the inclusion permeability tensor are aligned with the inclusion orientation. While this modeling assumption works well with tensile fractures, it may fail in the context of faults, where...