Mechanics of Hydraulic Fractures

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2016, Pages 311-339

  Detournay, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiscale; Penny shaped fracture; Similarity solutions; Tip asymptotics

Indexed keywords

FRACTURING FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NATURAL GAS WELL PRODUCTION; VISCOSITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

ASYMPTOTICS; INCREASE PRODUCTIONS; INTERNAL PRESSURIZATION; MULTISCALE; OIL AND GAS WELL; SIMILARITY SOLUTION; TENSILE FRACTURES; VISCOUS DISSIPATION;

FRACTURE;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; DISSIPATION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; TENSILE STRESS; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 84954153123     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-010814-014736     Document Type: Article

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