X-ray CT based numerical analysis of fracture flow for core samples under various confining pressures

Engineering Geology

Volumn 123, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 338-346

  Watanabe, Noriaki ^a   Ishibashi, Takuya ^a   Ohsaki, Yutaka ^b   Tsuchiya, Yoshihiro ^c   Tamagawa, Tetsuya ^b   Hirano, Nobuo ^a   Okabe, Hiroshi ^c   Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPEX Research Center   (Japan)

^c GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Confining pressure; Core sample; Fracture flow; Numerical analysis; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM LINERS; APERTURE DISTRIBUTION; BREAKTHROUGH POINT; CONFINING PRESSURES; CT IMAGE; FLOW PATH; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE MODEL; FRACTURE POROSITY; IMAGE NOISE; IN-SITU; MEDICAL X-RAYS; MULTI-PHASE FLOW MODELS; NATURAL FRACTURE; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OVERWRAP; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; THIRD GENERATION; X-RAY CT;

ALUMINUM; CARBON FIBERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW SIMULATION; FRACTURE; MEDICAL IMAGING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ROCK PRESSURE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

CORE SAMPLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFINING PRESSURE; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE FLOW; GRANITE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; X-RAY;

EID: 80655146951     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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