[article]
Titre : |
Plane-strain propagation of a fluid-driven crack in a permeable rock with fracture toughness |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
J. Hu, Auteur ; D. I. Garagash, Auteur |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 1152-1166 |
Note générale : |
Mécanique appliquée |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Cracking Porous media Leakage Numerical analysis Rocks. |
Résumé : |
A solution to the problem of a plane-strain fluid-driven crack propagation in elastic permeable rock with resistance to fracture is presented. The fracture is driven by injection of an incompressible Newtonian fluid at a constant rate. The solution, restricted to the case of zero lag between the fluid front and the fracture tip, evolves from the early-time regime when the fluid flow takes place mostly inside the crack toward the large-time response when most of the injected fluid is leaking from the crack into the surrounding rock. This transition further depends on a time-invariant partitioning between the energy expanded to overcome the rock fracture toughness and the energy dissipated in the viscous fluid flow in the fracture. A numerical approach is used to compute the solution for the normalized crack length and crack opening and net-fluid pressure profiles as a function of two dimensionless parameters: the leak-off/storage evolution parameter and the toughness/viscosity number. Relation of this solution to the various available asymptotic solutions is discussed. Obtained mapping of the solution onto the problem parametric space has a potential to simplify the tasks of design, modeling, and data inversion for hydraulic fracturing treatments and laboratory experiments. |
DEWEY : |
620.1 |
ISSN : |
0733-9399 |
En ligne : |
http://ascelibrary.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JENMDT000 [...] |
in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 136 N° 9 (Septembre 2010) . - pp. 1152-1166
[article] Plane-strain propagation of a fluid-driven crack in a permeable rock with fracture toughness [texte imprimé] / J. Hu, Auteur ; D. I. Garagash, Auteur . - pp. 1152-1166. Mécanique appliquée Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Journal of engineering mechanics > Vol. 136 N° 9 (Septembre 2010) . - pp. 1152-1166
Mots-clés : |
Cracking Porous media Leakage Numerical analysis Rocks. |
Résumé : |
A solution to the problem of a plane-strain fluid-driven crack propagation in elastic permeable rock with resistance to fracture is presented. The fracture is driven by injection of an incompressible Newtonian fluid at a constant rate. The solution, restricted to the case of zero lag between the fluid front and the fracture tip, evolves from the early-time regime when the fluid flow takes place mostly inside the crack toward the large-time response when most of the injected fluid is leaking from the crack into the surrounding rock. This transition further depends on a time-invariant partitioning between the energy expanded to overcome the rock fracture toughness and the energy dissipated in the viscous fluid flow in the fracture. A numerical approach is used to compute the solution for the normalized crack length and crack opening and net-fluid pressure profiles as a function of two dimensionless parameters: the leak-off/storage evolution parameter and the toughness/viscosity number. Relation of this solution to the various available asymptotic solutions is discussed. Obtained mapping of the solution onto the problem parametric space has a potential to simplify the tasks of design, modeling, and data inversion for hydraulic fracturing treatments and laboratory experiments. |
DEWEY : |
620.1 |
ISSN : |
0733-9399 |
En ligne : |
http://ascelibrary.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JENMDT000 [...] |
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