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An Analytical Solution of Partially Penetrating Hydraulic Fractures in a Box-Shaped Reservoir

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  • He Zhang
  • Xiaodong Wang
  • Lei Wang

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This paper presents a new method to give an analytical solution in Laplace domain directly that is used to describe pressure transient behavior of partially penetrating hydraulic fractures in a box-shaped reservoir with closed boundaries. The basic building block of the method is to solve diffusivity equation with the integration of Dirac function over the distance that is presented for the first time. Different from the traditional method of using the source solution and Green’s function presented by Gringarten and Ramey, this paper uses Laplace transform and Fourier transform to solve the diffusivity equation and the analytical solution obtained is accurate and simple. The effects of parameters including fracture height, fracture length, the position of the fracture, and reservoir width on the pressure and pressure derivative are fully investigated. The advantage of the analytical solution is easy to incorporate storage coefficient and skin factor. It can also reduce the amount of computation and compute efficiently and quickly.

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  • He Zhang & Xiaodong Wang & Lei Wang, 2015. "An Analytical Solution of Partially Penetrating Hydraulic Fractures in a Box-Shaped Reservoir," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2015, pages 1-11, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:726910
    DOI: 10.1155/2015/726910
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