A review of hydraulic fracturing simulation

B Chen, BR Barboza, Y Sun, J Bai, HR Thomas… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
Along with horizontal drilling techniques, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has improved shale
gas production significantly in past decades. In order to understand the mechanism of …

[HTML][HTML] The use of discrete fracture networks for modelling coupled geomechanical and hydrological behaviour of fractured rocks

Q Lei, JP Latham, CF Tsang - Computers and Geotechnics, 2017 - Elsevier
We present a discussion of the state-of-the-art on the use of discrete fracture networks
(DFNs) for modelling geometrical characteristics, geomechanical evolution and …

Coupled seepage-damage effect in fractured rock masses: Model development and a case study

Y Zhao, Q Liu, C Zhang, J Liao, H Lin… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The stability of rock engineering is generally dominated by existing seepage, particularly the
seepage evolution due to the rock masses damage. However, the current research …

Numerical methods for hydraulic fracture propagation: A review of recent trends

B Lecampion, A Bunger, X Zhang - Journal of natural gas science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of numerical methods for hydraulic fracture simulation has
accelerated in the past two decades. Recent advances in hydraulic fracture modeling and …

A multiscale poroelastic damage model for fracturing in permeable rocks

J Yang, J Liu, W Li, J Dai, F Xue, X Zhuang - International Journal of Rock …, 2024 - Elsevier
A new poroelastic damage model is developed in the paper to describe the macroscopic
failure of rock materials due to microcrack nucleation and propagation based on a multiscale …

[HTML][HTML] An investigation of stimulation mechanisms in Enhanced Geothermal Systems

MW McClure, RN Horne - International Journal of Rock Mechanics and …, 2014 - Elsevier
We review ten historical Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) projects and find that
typically, during injection:(1) flow from the wellbore is from preexisting fractures,(2) …

Experimental investigation into hydraulic fracture geometry and proppant migration characteristics for southeastern Sichuan deep shale reservoirs

P Tan, H Pang, R Zhang, Y **, Y Zhou, J Kao… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Difficulties in fracture extension and proppants adding were two key factors that affected the
stimulated volume of deep shale reservoir. To clarify the mechanism of hydraulic fracture …

A fully coupled method for massively parallel simulation of hydraulically driven fractures in 3‐dimensions

RR Settgast, P Fu, SDC Walsh, JA White… - … for Numerical and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes a fully coupled finite element/finite volume approach for simulating
field‐scale hydraulically driven fractures in three dimensions, using massively parallel …

[HTML][HTML] A review on hydraulic fracturing of unconventional reservoir

Q Li, H **ng, J Liu, X Liu - Petroleum, 2015 - Elsevier
Hydraulic fracturing is widely accepted and applied to improve the gas recovery in
unconventional reservoirs. Unconventional reservoirs to be addressed here are with very …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling fluid injection-induced fracture activation, damage growth, seismicity occurrence and connectivity change in naturally fractured rocks

Q Lei, NG Doonechaly, CF Tsang - … Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 2021 - Elsevier
We develop a fully-coupled hydro-mechanical model to simulate fluid injection-induced
activation of pre-existing fractures, propagation of new damages, development of seismic …