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 …

Under the fact that considerable exploration and production of unconventional resources
and worsening global climate, reducing carbon emission and rationally utilizing carbon …

The discrete element modelling of triaxial tests plays a critical role in unveiling fundamental
properties of particulate materials, but the numerical implementation of a flexible membrane …

Suffusion refers to a special form of internal erosion characterized by the selective erosion of
the finest particles of a soil under the action of an internal fluid flow. In this work, the …

This paper presents an efficient and accurate Immersed Moving Boundary (IMB) algorithm
for solving fluid–particle interactions in the framework of the Lattice Boltzmann Method …

This paper presents a parametric study of a fluid-particle model which couples Lattice
Boltzmann Method (LBM) and Discrete Element Method (DEM) using an immersed moving …

Loss of fine particles or suffusion in soils induced by seepage is an important problem that
may cause dam or dike failures. This paper aims to study the evolution mechanisms of …

This paper introduces the development of a new predictive model in support of proppant
injection in naturally fractured coal seam gas (CSG) reservoirs. In the proposed model, the …

The paper focuses on the effect of the gas content in rock macropores on a hydraulic
fracturing process. The process was simulated by combining the discrete element method …

Physicochemical forces exert non-neligible effects on the migration of micro-particles in
channels. Experiments, analytical and non-resolved computational fluid dynamics models …