Pressure drop of water flow between injection and production wells intersected by a circular fracture

Geothermics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-41

  Ogino, Fumimaru ^a   Yamamura, Masato ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hot dry rock; Modelling; Pressure drop

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; FRACTURE; HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE DROP; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DARCY LAW; FRACTURE DIAMETER; VOID FRACTION; WELL DIAMETER;

GEOTHERMAL WELLS;

GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR;

EID: 0032004841     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6505(97)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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