Hydraulic fracture crack propagation driven by a non-Newtonian fluid

Moscow University Mechanics Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 135-142

  Tagirova, V R ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DARCY LAW; FLUID SATURATIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INCOMPRESSIBLE VISCOUS FLUIDS; LIMITING CASE; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; NONLINEAR RHEOLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; POWER-LAW; POWER-LAW RHEOLOGY; PSEUDOPLASTIC; SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTION; VISCOUS STRESS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; ELASTICITY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FRACTURE; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

RHEOLOGY;

EID: 79953861242     PISSN: 00271330     EISSN: 19348452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3103/S0027133009060016     Document Type: Article

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