Simulation of fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs with the use of an effective permeability tensor

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 28, Issue , 2004, Pages 303-307

  Teimoori, A ^a   Tran, N H ^a   Chen, Z ^a   Rahman, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effective permeability tensor; Fluid flow in porous media; HDR reservoir; Naturally fractured reservoir

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCKS; VISCOSITY;

EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY TENSOR; FLUID FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; HOT DRY ROCK (HDR) RESERVOIR; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIR;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

EID: 17644427303     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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