Propagation of a hydraulic fracture parallel to a free surface

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1317-1340

  Zhang, X ^a   Jeffrey, R G ^a   Detournay, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic fracturing; Numerical solution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; ELASTICITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FIXED GRID ALGORITHM; INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS NEWTONIAN FLUID; NUMERICAL SOLUTION;

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING;

FRACTURE PROPAGATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 27644562770     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.461     Document Type: Article

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