Upscaling of fracture hydraulics by means of an oriented correlated stochastic continuum model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Öhman, Johan ^a   Niemi, Auli ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fracture network; Stochastic continuum; Upscaling; Well tests

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER WELLS;

FRACTURE HYDRAULICS; STOCHASTIC CONTINUUM APPROACH;

WATER RESOURCES;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; POROUS MEDIUM; WELL FRACTURING; WELL TESTING;

EID: 1542752191     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001776     Document Type: Article

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