Proppant Transportation in Cross Fractures: Some Findings and Suggestions for Field Engineering

The proppant transportation is a typical two-phase flow process in a complex cross fracture network during hydraulic fracturing. In this paper, the proppant transportation in cross fractures is investigated by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. The Euler–Euler two-phase flow model and th...

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Main Authors: Yan Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Xuhui Zhang, Peng Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Energies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/18/4912