Fluid flow through rough fractures in rocks. II: A new matching model for rough rock fractures

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 454-465

  Ogilvie, Steven R ^a,b   Isakov, Evgeny ^a   Glover, Paul W J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Apertures; Fluid flow; Rough fractures; Synthetic fractures

Indexed keywords

APERTURES; DISPOSAL SITES; ROUGH FRACTURES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PARAFRAC; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SYNFRAC; SYNTHETIC FRACTURES;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GRANITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SANDSTONE; STATISTICAL METHODS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ROCKS;

FRACTURE FLOW; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 30744444730     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.041     Document Type: Article

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