Estimating hydraulic conductivity of fractured rocks from high-pressure packer tests with an Izbash's law-based empirical model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2096-2118

  Chen, Yi Feng ^a   Hu, Shao Hua ^a   Hu, Ran ^a   Zhou, Chuang Bing ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

fractured rocks; high pressure packer tests; hydraulic conductivity; hydraulic fracturing; non Darcy flow

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LAMINAR FLOW; PACKERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROCKS; STREAM FLOW; TESTING;

CONDUCTING STRUCTURE; CONFINING STRESS; CRITICAL REYNOLDS NUMBER; FRACTURED ROCK; NON-DARCY FLOW; PACKER TESTS; PERMEABILITY ENHANCEMENT; PRESSURE DEPENDENT;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BOREHOLE; FLOW CONTROL; FRACTURE ZONE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERMEABILITY; ROCK;

CHINA; HAINAN;

EID: 85027952665     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016458     Document Type: Article

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