Difficulties encountered in describing fracture flow using classical fluid flow equations has
led to extensive studies of the roughness effect on fracture flow over the past 70 years …

The roughness of fractures may play an important role in affecting the migration and
placement of proppants during hydraulic fracturing operations. A series of proppant flow …

Proppant distribution in rough rock fractures is a key factor in the evaluation of the
effectiveness of a hydraulic fracturing operation. This paper focuses on the study of how …

Lost circulation is a major challenge in drilling naturally fractured formations. The most
common solution for this problem is to add particulate lost circulation materials (LCM) in the …

Proppant transport and distribution in fractures is critical to evaluate the effectiveness of
hydraulic fracturing of unconventional reservoirs such as shale and tight sandstone. This …

Hydraulic fracturing treatment in rocks creates surfaces that are not smooth but rough in
general. Accurate characterization of surface roughness is necessary to relate fracture …

The process of proppant filling within complex fractures is a key factor that determines the
effects of volumetric fracturing operation in shale. To address the need of simulating …

This study evaluates and quantifies fracture roughness effects on proppant particle settling
in fractures utilizing coupled, resolved computational fluid dynamics (ie, simulation of carrier …

In unconventional reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing often results in narrow and rough fractures.
Nevertheless, the placement in narrow rough fractures is different from conventional …

A method to generate fractures with rough surfaces was proposed according to the fractal
interpolation theory. Considering the particle-particle, particle-wall and particle-fluid …