Toughness-dominated hydraulic fracture with leak-off

International Journal of Fracture

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-190

  Bunger, Andrew P ^a   Detournay, Emmanuel ^b   Garagash, Dmitry I ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansions; Hydraulic fracturing; Numerical methods

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INFILTRATION; NEWTONIAN FLOW; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCKS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SOLIDS; TOUGHNESS; VISCOSITY;

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS; DIMENSIONLESS FLUID VISCOSITY; INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUID; TOUGHNESS-DOMINATED HYDRAULIC FRACTURE;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

EID: 24144466496     PISSN: 03769429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10704-005-0154-0     Document Type: Article

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