Fractures in ComponentTransport process

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Hello everyone,

I was wondering how fractures can be included in the ComponentTransport process of ogs6. To me, it looks like it works only by including a fracture into the mesh and assigning different properties to the fracture material group.
Is there no other approach to include a discrete fracture, e.g. as in the HM with LIE process, where an aperture can be assigned?

I would be glad about any help.
Best regards,
Jonas

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Hi Jonas,

You are right. The ComponentTransport process currently cannot be used to simulate mass transport in fractured porous media with embedded fractures being represented by lower-dimensional interface elements as in the HM.

Best regards,
Renchao