Effects of cold-water injection on fracture aperture and injection pressure

Transactions - Geothermal Resources Council

Volumn 29, Issue , 2005, Pages 183-187

  Nygren, Andrew ^a   Ghassemi, Ahmad ^a   Cheng, Alexander ^b  

^a University of North Dakota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced Geothermal System; Fracture permeability; Poroelasticity; Thermoelasticity

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESSES; THERMOELASTICITY; WATER INJECTION;

ENHANCED GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM (EGS); FLUID PRESSURE; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; POROELASTIC;

GEOTHERMAL WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 33745212448     PISSN: 01935933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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