Microscopic modelling of the hydraulic fracturing process

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1169-1186

  Eshiet, Kenneth I ^a   Sheng, Yong ^a   Ye, Jianqiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geological storage; Hydraulic fracturing

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMPLEX FRACTURING; GEOLOGICAL STORAGE; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING PROCESS; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE SEPARATION; PRESSURE DEVELOPMENT; RESERVOIR MODELLING;

FRACTURE;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID INJECTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MICROSCOPY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR;

EID: 84872845089     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1818-5     Document Type: Article

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