Abstract Development of numerical methods for hydraulic fracture simulation has
accelerated in the past two decades. Recent advances in hydraulic fracture modeling and …

Hydraulic fractures represent a particular class of tensile fractures that propagate in solid
media under pre-existing compressive stresses as a result of internal pressurization by an …

Magma transport in brittle rock occurs by diking. Understanding the dynamics of diking and
its observable consequences is essential to deciphering magma propagation in volcanic …

Multi-stage fracturing is the current preferred method of completion of horizontal wells in
unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. Its core component consists in simultaneously …

Fluid driven fractures propagate in the upper earth crust either naturally or in response to
engineered fluid injections. The quantitative prediction of their evolution is critical in order to …

This paper develops a closed-form approximate solution for a penny-shaped hydraulic
fracture whose behaviour is determined by an interplay of three competing physical …

To resolve the issue of design for multi-stage and multi-cluster fracturing in multi-zone
reservoirs, a new efficient algorithm for the planar 3D multi-fracture propagation model was …

In this work, we present numerical studies of fixed-stress iterative coupling for solving flow
and geomechanics with propagating fractures in a porous medium. Specifically, fracture …

This paper re-examines the boundary conditions at the moving front of a hydraulic fracture
when the fluid front has coalesced with the crack edge. This practically important particular …

This study revisits the problem of a steadily propagating semi-infinite hydraulic fracture in
which the processes of toughness-related energy release, viscous dissipation and leak-off …