ABSTRACT
This work is concerned with modelling the seepage of gas through a rigid fractured medium. It summarises results obtained using the homogenization method for periodic structures. Thereby, unlike the phenomenological approaches, the macroscopic behaviour is deduced from the physics at the microscopic scales, without any prerequisite. The homogenized model is then compared to the model of Warren and Root for a slightly compressible fluid flow in a fractured porous medium. Finally, a correction of pseudo steady state phenomenological models is proposed.
