Hydraulic fracturing is widely accepted and applied to improve the gas recovery in
unconventional reservoirs. Unconventional reservoirs to be addressed here are with very …

The past decade has witnessed the substantial growth in research interests and progress on
the subject of coupled hydro-mechanical processes in rocks and soils, driven mainly by the …

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 …

Naturally fractured rock mass is highly inhomogeneous and contains geological
discontinuities at various length scales. Hydraulic fracture stimulation in such a medium …

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 …

The effects of rock inherent heterogeneity and grain size on hydraulic fracture initiation and
propagation for different propagation regimes are investigated through two dimensional …

A hybrid discrete‐continuum numerical scheme is developed to study the behavior of a
hydraulic fracture crossing natural fractures. The fully coupled hybrid scheme utilizes a …

This work introduces 3D lattice modeling of hydraulic fracturing initiation and near-wellbore
propagation for different perforation models, including spiral perforation, oriented perforation …

A grain-based model (GBM) is generally employed by many researchers to simulate the
microcracking process of crystalline brittle rock by the distinct element method. In this study …

Fluid pressure changes affect fault stability and can promote the initiation of earthquakes
and aseismic slip. However, the relationship between seismic and aseismic fault slip during …