Computational Modeling of Fluid Flow through a Fracture in Permeable Rock

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 493-510

  Crandall, Dustin ^a,b   Ahmadi, Goodarz ^a   Smith, Duane H ^b  

^a Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cubic law; Fractured porous media; Friction factor; Navier Stokes CFD; Single phase flow

Indexed keywords

BEREA SANDSTONE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CUBIC LAWS; DARCY'S LAW; DISCRETE FRACTURES; FINITE-VOLUME; FLUID CONDUITS; FLUID FLOW; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; FRACTURE PROFILES; FRACTURE WALLS; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; HIGH PERMEABILITY; MATRIX PERMEABILITY; NAVIER STOKES; PERMEABLE MEDIA; PERMEABLE ROCKS; POROUS ROCKS; PRESSURE LOSS; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; VOLUMETRIC FLOW RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; TRIBOLOGY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DARCY LAW; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW;

EID: 77955852771     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9516-9     Document Type: Article

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