Permeability reduction in a dilating rock: Network modeling of damage and tortuosity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 3099-3102

  Zhu, Wenlu ^a   Wong, Teng Fong ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; MICROCRACKS; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TECTONICS; COMPLEX NETWORKS;

HIGH POROSITY ROCKS; LOW POROSITY ROCKS; ROCK DILATANCY;

ROCKS;

DAMAGE MODEL; DILATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

HIGH-POROSITY ROCKS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; NETWORK MODELING; PERMEABILITY AND POROSITIES; PERMEABILITY ENHANCEMENT; PERMEABILITY EVOLUTION; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; STRESS-INDUCED;

EID: 0030293948     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03078     Document Type: Article

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