Gas-condensate flow in the vicinity of a hydraulic fracture

The problem of gas-condensate flow in the vicinity of a production well with a hydraulic fracture is considered. In the matrix, the flow is assumed to be three-dimensional, and at the fracture, it is assumed to be two-dimensional. It is shown that, for steady-state flow, the problem is split into a physicochemical problem (of phase transitions) and a filtration problem (of determining the pressure field). Numerical solutions are constructed for a rectangular fracture with finite and infinite conductivities. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 128–136, May–June, 2008.