Analytical model of leakage through fault to overlying formations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Zeidouni, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFINING LAYERS; DAMAGE ZONES; FAULT CORE; FLOW EQUATIONS; FOURIER DOMAINS; LEAKAGE RATES; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PRESSURE CHANGE; SOLUTION METHODOLOGY; VERTICAL FLOWS;

ANALYTICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

MODELS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DAMAGE; FAULT; FLOW MODELING; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAPLACE TRANSFORM; LEAKAGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84870476249     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012582     Document Type: Article

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