Fractal modeling of capillary pressure curves for The Geysers rocks

Geothermics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-207

  Li, Kewen ^a   Horne, Roland N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Fractal modeling; Mercury intrusion; Pore size distribution; Rock heterogeneity; The Geysers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; FRACTURE; GEYSERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PORE SIZE; PRESSURE;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FRACTAL MODELING; MERCURY INTRUSION; ROCK HETEROGENEITY;

ROCKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTALS; FRACTURE; GEYSERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PORE SIZE; PRESSURE; ROCKS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEYSER; HOT DRY ROCK; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 33745909164     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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