Estimating Pressure Losses in Interconnected Fracture Systems: Integrated Tensor Approach

International Journal of Geomechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 353-363

  Shaik, Abdul Ravoof ^a   Tran, Nam H ^a   Rahman, Sheik S ^a   Tran, Thanh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flow simulation; Fractured rocks; Integrated tensor; Naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs; Pressure loss

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DEFORMATION; FLOW SIMULATION; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT INTERCONNECTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TENSORS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOTHERMAL RESERVOIR; HIGH IN SITU STRESS; MATRIX DEFORMATION; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; PERMEABILITY TENSORS; PRESSURE LOSS;

FRACTURE;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRESSURE DROP;

EID: 80155183459     PISSN: 15323641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GM.1943-5622.0000099     Document Type: Article

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