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

Glutenite is an important unconventional tight oil and gas reservoir. Due to the glutenite
formation with strong heterogeneity and variable lithology which contains a large number of …

A propagating fluid driven fracture in a rock mass is expected to interact with geological
interfaces on a wide variety of length scales. The vertical growth of hydraulic fractures in …

Hydraulic fracture propagation under natural fracture distributions has always been a hot
topic in unconventional reservoir stimulation. In this work, the hydromechanical behavior …

Weak bedding planes (interfaces), a critical factor in determining the fracture height growth
and the propagation pathway of the fractures, is pervasively distributed in the …

Many numerical modeling techniques have been employed to understand the phenomena
occurring during hydraulic fracturing. Despite the various complex models developed, such …

The propagation behavior of hydraulic fractures (HFs) in unconventional shale formation is
influenced by anisotropic fracture toughness and interaction with existing nature fractures …

Shale formations often consist of multiple distinct layers with varying rock properties, in-situ
stress states, and interface properties between layers. Weak horizontal interfaces often affect …

Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is a primary method to develop geothermal resources
stored in hot dry rock (HDR), but it faces several key problems, such as unreasonable …

Hydraulic fracture propagation is a coupled solid-fluid problem involving moving
boundaries. The boundary element method is an efficient way to model it in elastic media; …