The relationships among stress, effective porosity and permeability of coal considering the distribution of natural fractures: theoretical and experimental analyses

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5997-6007

  Zhang, Zetian ^a   Zhang, Ru ^a   Xie, Heping ^a   Gao, Mingzhong ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Coal; Effective porosity; Fracture; Permeability; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; FRACTURE; METHANE; POROSITY; STRESSES;

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; COALBED METHANE PRODUCTION; DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; EFFECTIVE POROSITY; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH; PERMEABILITY DETERMINATIONS; POWER LAW RELATIONSHIP;

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY;

EID: 84939949490     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4280-3     Document Type: Article

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