Plane-strain propagation of a fluid-driven crack in a permeable rock with fracture toughness

Journal of Engineering Mechanics

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1152-1166

  Hu, J ^a   Garagash, D I ^b  

^a AMEC FOSTER WHEELER   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic solution; Fracture mechanics; Hydraulic fracture; Leak off; Numerical analysis; Porous media

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; CONSTANT RATE; CRACK LENGTH; CRACK OPENING; DATA INVERSION; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; EVOLUTION PARAMETERS; FLUID FRONTS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING TREATMENTS; INCOMPRESSIBLE NEWTONIAN FLUID; INJECTED FLUIDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LEAK-OFF; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PARAMETRIC SPACES; PERMEABLE ROCKS; PLANE-STRAIN; PRESSURE PROFILES; ROCK FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SURROUNDING ROCK; TIME INVARIANTS; VISCOUS FLUID FLOW;

CRACKS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

CRACK PROPAGATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; LABORATORY METHOD; NEWTONIAN FLUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; ROCK MECHANICS; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054992911     PISSN: 07339399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000169     Document Type: Article

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