Although coal-gas interactions have been comprehensively investigated, most prior studies have focused on one or more component processes of effective stress or sorption-induced deformation and for resulting isotropic changes in coal permeability. In this study a permeability model is developed to define the evolution of gas sorption-induced permeability anisotropy under the full spectrum of mechanical conditions spanning prescribed in-situ stresses through constrained displacement. In the model, gas sorption-induced coal directional permeabilities are linked into directional strains through an elastic modulus reduction ratio, R(m). It defines the ratio of coal bulk elastic modulus to coal matrix modulus (0

Keywords:Coal permeability anisotropy;Coal matrix swelling;Coal-gas interaction;Numerical modeling;Modulus reduction ratio