Multifractal for discrete fracture modelling

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1347-1353

  Tran, Nam H ^a   Valencia, Karen ^a   Tran, Kien ^a   Rahman, Sheik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrete fracture network; Discrete multifractal; Fractal; Fractured reservoir characterisation; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROCKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISCRETE FRACTURE MODELLING; MULTIFRACTAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 33744528177     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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