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AN INTRODUCTION TO FRACTAL-BASED APPROACHES IN UNCONVENTIONAL RESERVOIRS — PART I

Hubei Subsurface Multi-Scale Imaging Key Laboratory, Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China

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LIEHUI ZHANG

State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610500, P. R. China

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YANG JU

State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, P. R. China

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GIORGIO PIA

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Piazza d’Armi, 09123 Cagliari, Italy

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ZHIEN ZHANG

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, P. R. China

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Special Issue: An Introduction to Fractal-Based Approaches in Unconventional Reservoirs — Part I

Abstract

In recent years, unconventional reservoirs have drawn tremendous attention worldwide. This special issue collects a series of recent works on various fractal-based approaches in unconventional reservoirs. The topics covered in this introduction include fractal characterization of pore (throat) structure and its influences on the physical properties of unconventional rocks, fractal characteristics of crack propagation in coal and fluid flow in rock fracture network under shearing, porous flow phenomena and gas adsorption mechanism, fractal geophysical method in reservoirs.

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Received 28 March 2018

Accepted 4 April 2018

Published: April 16, 2018

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