Gas flow in ultra-tight shale strata

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 710, Issue , 2012, Pages 641-658

  Darabi, Hamed ^a   Ettehad, A ^a   Javadpour, F ^b   Sepehrnoori, K ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

micro nano fluid dynamics; porous media; rarefied gas flow

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF GASES; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GASES; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; PORE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS;

APPARENT PERMEABILITIES; CONTINUUM HYDRODYNAMICS; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICRO-/NANO-FLUID DYNAMICS; PERMEABILITY FUNCTIONS; RAREFIED GAS FLOW; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

GAS PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84866543532     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.424     Document Type: Article

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