Fracture flow and fracture cross flow experiments

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 511-519

  Makurat, Axel ^a   Gutierrez, Marte ^a  

^a Norwegian Geotechnical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; MORPHOLOGY; PORE SIZE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SHEAR FLOW; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

COMPRESSION STRENGTH; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; FRACTURE SURFACES; JOINT ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENTS; SHEAR DISPLACEMENT; STRESS-DEPENDENT; UNIAXIAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH;

FRACTURE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

FRACTURE ASPERITY DAMAGE; FRACTURE INTERNAL FLOW PATHS; FRACTURE WALL STRENGTH; JOINT ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; STRESS DEPENDENT FRACTURE APERTURE;

EID: 0029727435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/36732-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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