Influence of fracture tip on fluid flow displacements

Journal of Porous Media

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 435-447

  Alajmi, Abdullah F ^a   Grader, Abraham ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREA SANDSTONE; DISPLACEMENT PROCESS; DIVERGING FLOW; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLUID FLOW; FLUID FLOW PATTERNS; FRACTURED ROCK; HYDROCARBON RECOVERY; MATRIX; MULTI-PHASE FLUID FLOW; RECOVERY INFORMATION; SATURATION DISTRIBUTION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TWO-PHASE FLUID FLOW; WORK FOCUS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORE SAMPLES; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HYDROCARBONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 67649160933     PISSN: 1091028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JPorMedia.v12.i5.40     Document Type: Article

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