Analysis of permeability scaling within single boreholes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Illman, Walter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PNEUMATIC INJECTION TEST; SCALE EFFECT;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOREHOLE; FRACTURED MEDIUM; PERMEABILITY; ROCK MECHANICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; UPSCALING;

EID: 18544402181     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl019303     Document Type: Article

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