Deformation band populations in fault damage zone-impact on fluid flow

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 231-248

  Kolyukhin, Dmitry ^a   Schueller, Sylvie ^b   Espedal, Magne S ^a   Fossen, Haakon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Deformation band; Effective permeability; Fault damage zone; Stochastic models; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; DEFORMATION; FAULT; FLUID FLOW; FRAGMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR; STOCHASTICITY; UPSCALING;

EID: 77952889028     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-009-9148-8     Document Type: Article

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