A fractured reservoir can support and sustain long-term geothermal energy extraction
operations. The process of injecting cold water to extract hot water from a fractured reservoir …

Geothermal energy has the potential to support direct heat usage and electricity generation
at a low carbon footprint. Using carbon dioxide (CO 2) as a heat transfer fluid can allow us to …

Most rock masses contain natural fractures. In many engineering applications, a detailed
understanding of the characteristics of fluid flow through a fractured rock mass is critically …

Data processing, analysis and forecasting by applying artificial intelligence algorithms plays
a pivotal role in the big data era. Hybrid forecasting of time series data is considered to be a …

A properly arranged subsea production system reduces costs and contributes to production
performance due to favorable hydraulic characteristics and flow assurance. Therefore, the …

PFC2D (3D) is commercial software, which is commonly used to model the crack initiation of
rock and rock‐like materials. For the PFC2D (3D) numerical simulation, a proper set of …

Reservoir management and contaminant transport simulations rely on accurate modeling of
the subsurface. This task becomes more challenging when the reservoir of interest also has …

In this paper, a 3D numerical reconstruction method is proposed based on improved
simulated annealing algorithms and limited morphological information from experiments …

Many studies have approved that optimising the cutting parameters is effective for reducing
the energy consumption of machining operations of machine tools. However, this technique …

Effective modeling of fracture networks is essential for accurately simulating fluid dynamics
and mass transfer processes in the subsurface environment. In this paper, we define an …