Hydraulic fracturing treatment is one of the most efficient conventional matrix stimulation
techniques currently utilized in the petroleum industry. However, due to the spatiotemporal …

Bentonite is a key material for the construction of Engineered Barrier Systems (EBSs) in
deep geological repositories (DGRs) for radioactive waste. Modelling of gas migration in …

Conventional discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling is used to simulate hydraulic fracture
propagation in fractured low permeability reservoirs. However, natural fractures have a …

All reservoirs are fractured to some degree. Depending on the density, dimension,
orientation and the cementation of natural fractures and the location where the hydraulic …

Hydraulic fracturing has been widely used in tight reservoir to generate fractures to improve
the conductivity and productivity. However, due to combined effects of volcanism, tectonic …

Bedding planes have a significant effect on the behaviour of hydraulic fracture height
growth, increasing the complexity of understanding hydraulic fractures. At the same time …

Under the influence of tectonic stress and faults, there are many natural fractures (NFs) in
hot dry rock (HDR) reservoirs. However, the effect of NFs on the propagation of hydraulic …

As a diffused fracture theory, phase-field models can seamlessly simulate complex crack
patterns such as extending, branching, and merging. Despite the success of phase-field …

Natural fracture data from one of the Carboniferous shale masses in the eastern Qaidam
Basin were used to establish a stochastic model of a discrete fracture network and to …

Efficiency has long been a bottleneck for peridynamics simulation as compared to the grid-
based methods. This paper proposes a super-fast peridynamic (SFPD) model for crack and …