Poroelastic analysis of hydraulic fracture propagation

43rd U.S. Rock Mechanics Symposium and 4th U.S.-Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Xue, W ^a   Ghassemi, A ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Fracture propagation; Hydraulic fractures; Poroelasticity

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODELS; FAR-FIELD STRESS; FLUID PRESSURES; FRACTURE APERTURES; FRACTURE PROPAGATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE PROPAGATION; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; INTERNAL FLUID PRESSURE; MATRIX PORE; MULTIPLE CRACK; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PORO-ELASTICITY; POROELASTIC; POROELASTIC MODEL; POROELASTIC STRESS; PRESSURE INCREASE; ROCK DEFORMATION; ROCK MATRIX; STRESS FIELD AROUND THE CRACK; STRUCTURAL CRITERION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DISPLACEMENT;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 70450210542     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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