Effective hydraulic properties of fractured reservoirs and composite porous media

Journal of Seismic Exploration

Volumn 16, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 199-224

  Jakobsen, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Homogenization; Integral equation methods; Reservoir simulation; Wave induced fluid flow

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; GEOSTATISTICS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MATRIX; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR-INDUCED SEISMICITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 37549052141     PISSN: 09630651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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