Hydraulic fracture propagation with 3-d leak-off

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 499-518

  Mathias, Simon A ^a   van Reeuwijk, Maarten ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carter model; Electrified disk; Hydraulic fracture; Leak off; Mixed type boundary condition

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CIRCULAR FRACTURE; CLOSED FORM; CONVOLUTION INTEGRALS; ELASTICITY MODEL; ELECTRIFIED DISK; FLUID LEAK-OFF; FRACTURE FACE; FRACTURE GROWTH; FRACTURE PLANE; FRACTURE PRESSURES; GEOLOGICAL RESERVOIRS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE PROPAGATION; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; LEAKAGE FLUX; NUMERICAL METHODOLOGIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MEDIUM; RADIAL FRACTURES; RESERVOIR FLOW; SIMPLE EXPRESSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; TIME ASYMPTOTIC;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ELASTICITY; FRACTURE; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 76149088400     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9375-4     Document Type: Article

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