Effect of fluid compressibility and borehole radius on the propagation of a fluid-driven fracture

11th International Conference on Fracture 2005, ICF11

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages 5899-5904

  Lhomme, Tanguy ^a   Detournay, E ^b   Jeffrey, Robert G ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES; COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS; ELASTIC MATERIALS; EVOLUTION PARAMETERS; FLUID COMPRESSIBILITY; FLUID PRESSURES; FRACTURE GROWTH; GROWTH STEPS; INITIAL FLAW; INVISCID FLUIDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LENGTH SCALE; LOW VISCOSITY FLUIDS; MATERIAL TOUGHNESS; SELF-SIMILAR; SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS; UNSTABLE PHASE; VOLUME OF FLUIDS;

COMPRESSIBILITY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84869860974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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