Modeling fully coupled oil-gas flow in a dual-porosity medium

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 326-338

  Nair, Rajesh ^a   Abousleiman, Younane ^b   Zaman, Musharraf ^b  

^a HALLIBURTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Finite element method; Gas; Models; Oils; Porous media; Soil deformation

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

DUAL POROSITY MEDIUM; OIL-GAS FLOW; SOIL DEFORMATION;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 28844436064     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1532-3641(2005)5:4(326)     Document Type: Article

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