The role of chemistry in fracture pattern development and opportunities to advance interpretations of geological materials

SE Laubach, RH Lander, LJ Criscenti… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Fracture pattern development has been a challenging area of research in the Earth sciences
for more than 100 years. Much has been learned about the spatial and temporal complexity …

Review of multi-scale and multi-physical simulation technologies for shale and tight gas reservoirs

L Wang, S Wang, R Zhang, C Wang, Y Xiong… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comprehensive literature review on the simulation techniques being
developed in recent years for describing unique flow behaviors in shale and tight gas …

Reactive transport codes for subsurface environmental simulation

CI Steefel, CAJ Appelo, B Arora, D Jacques… - Computational …, 2015 - Springer
A general description of the mathematical and numerical formulations used in modern
numerical reactive transport codes relevant for subsurface environmental simulations is …

PhreeqcRM: A reaction module for transport simulators based on the geochemical model PHREEQC

DL Parkhurst, L Wissmeier - Advances in Water Resources, 2015 - Elsevier
PhreeqcRM is a geochemical reaction module designed specifically to perform equilibrium
and kinetic reaction calculations for reactive transport simulators that use an operator …

A mathematical framework for multiphase poromechanics in multiple porosity media

Q Zhang, X Yan, Z Li - Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 - Elsevier
Unconventional geomaterials often exhibit multi-modal pore size distribution. We have
developed a comprehensive framework for porous media exhibiting multiple porosity scales …

Cracking and damage from crystallization in pores: Coupled chemo-hydro-mechanics and phase-field modeling

J Choo, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cracking and damage from crystallization of minerals in pores center on a wide range of
problems, from weathering and deterioration of structures to storage of CO 2 via in situ …

An overview of TOUGH-based geomechanics models

J Rutqvist - Computers & Geosciences, 2017 - Elsevier
After the initial development of the first TOUGH-based geomechanics model 15 years ago
based on linking TOUGH2 multiphase flow simulator to the FLAC3D geomechanics …

Coupled THMC models for bentonite in an argillite repository for nuclear waste: Illitization and its effect on swelling stress under high temperature

L Zheng, J Rutqvist, H Xu, JT Birkholzer - Engineering geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Subsurface manipulations such as those expected from the disposal of heat-emanating
radioactive waste in deep repositories can induce strongly coupled Thermal (T) …

Modeling reactive transport processes in fractures

H Deng, N Spycher - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Fractures are ubiquitous and important features in the Earth subsurface (Berkowitz 2002;
Pyrak-Nolte et al. 2015). They are created as a result of rock failure when the critical stress …

Coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical and Chemical (THMC) simulation of silicate rocks with an enriched–FEM model

SMS Mortazavi, AR Khoei - Computers and Geotechnics, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerical simulation of coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical and Chemical (THMC)
processes in deep Earth is an active field of research. In this study, a two-dimensional …