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Table 4 Sequential hydraulic fracturing of large scale reservoir

From: An approach to hydraulic fracture in geomaterials through a porous brittle damage material model

Property

Unit

Value

Density

\(\hbox {kg/m}^3\)

\(2.5 \,\times \,10^3\)

Young modulus

MPa

6.0 \(\,\times \,\) \(10^4\)

Poisson ratio

 

0.20

Tensile strength (*)

MPa

2.5

Friction angle (*)

\(^\circ \)

30

Critical energy release rate (*)

N/m

500

Initial porosity

 

0.05

Matrix permeability

\(\hbox {m}^2\)

\(9.7\,\times \,10^{-19}\)

\(L_0/\varDelta _c\)

 

10

Fluid density

\(\hbox {kg m}^{-3}\)

\(10^3\)

Fluid viscosity

Pa s

\(10^{-3}\)

Proppant diameter

mm

0.1

  1. Material parameters used in the numerical analysis. The star (*) denotes the parameters estimated from the literature