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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0898
... understand the law of hydraulic fracture propagation in the vertical direction, a coupled hydraulic-mechanic-damage model is established based on the phase field method to study the propagation of fractures in bedded shales. Based on this model, the effects of fracturing fluid viscosity and alternative...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-1112
... subdiscipline pre-existing fracture hydraulic fracturing perforation tunnel geologist completion installation and operations hydraulic fracture propagation geology reservoir geomechanics wellbore modeling near-wellbore hydraulic fracture behavior damjanac fracture geometry cement sheath natural...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-1001
... and low viscosity conditions. This paper reveals the dynamic mechanism of hydraulic fracture propagation in deep CBM reservoirs, which helps to understand the construction limits of hydraulic fractures in communicating cleats and bedding, and thereby improves the design method of hydraulic fracturing...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0516
...) explored the impact of natural fracture development on hydraulic fracture propagation using large-scale laboratory fracturing experiments. They discovered that the propagation of hydraulic fractures is primarily influenced by the differential in-situ stress and the orientation of the fracture relative...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0566
... ABSTRACT: Hydraulic fracturing is widely employed to enhance permeability and well-reservoir connectivity, increasing fluid flow and heat transfer in oil/gas/geothermal reservoirs. Analytical and numerical solutions have been developed for predicting the hydraulic fracture propagation. However...
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Paper presented at the 58th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2024
Paper Number: ARMA-2024-0802
... ABSTRACT: This study investigates experimentally hydraulic fracture propagation, arrest and closure in permeable rocks. Through a controlled laboratory experiment on a Molasse sandstone block under a true triaxial state of stress, hydraulic fracture propagation and closure was monitored via...
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Paper presented at the 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2023
Paper Number: ARMA-2023-0516
..., in carbonate reservoirs, the high variation of the rock formation properties due to anisotropy and heterogeneity can affect hydraulic fracture propagation. This work presents a numerical methodology to simulate 3D fluid-driven fracture propagation in a carbonate reservoir. The heterogeneity is introduced...
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Paper presented at the 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2023
Paper Number: ARMA-2023-0775
..., hydraulic fracture propagation commonly involves highly complex patterns. To investigate the effects of material heterogeneities and layered rock structure on hydraulic fracturing, numerical modeling usually plays a central role. Most existing numerical methods, however, face a formidable challenge...
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Paper presented at the 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 25–28, 2023
Paper Number: ARMA-2023-0823
... compared to the far-field stresses. In this study, we present a workflow for hydraulic fracturing simulation and optimization in cave mining. Specifically, discrete element method (DEM) models are constructed to simulate hydraulic fracture propagation based on a lattice approach, in which the deformation...
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Paper presented at the 56th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 26–29, 2022
Paper Number: ARMA-2022-0150
... a 2D high-speed imaging scheme for hydraulic fracturing test in the plane strain and in-situ stress conditions. Five bedding angles were taken account to understand the effects of shale anisotropy on hydraulic fracture propagation. The dynamic propagation behaviors and their trajectories were recorded...
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Paper presented at the 56th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 26–29, 2022
Paper Number: ARMA-2022-0601
... ABSTRACT: In this paper we present a new mechanism that explains hydraulic fracture containment in the target zone. The study is based on the modelling of hydraulic fracture propagation in weak rocks and comparison of the results of propagation in the vertical direction with propagation...
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Paper presented at the 56th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 26–29, 2022
Paper Number: ARMA-2022-0554
... hydraulic fracture propagation numerical analysis modeling & simulation interaction diameter engineering hydraulic fracture fracture propagation concentration morphology ARMA 22 554 Numerical Analysis of Interaction between Hydraulic Fracture and a 3D Spherical Cave Kao, Jiawei.* Sinopec...
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Paper presented at the 55th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 18–25, 2021
Paper Number: ARMA-2021-1394
... ABSTRACT: Material heterogeneity is commonplace in rock masses, and thus it is vital to investigate its influence on hydraulic fracture propagation in tight reservoir rocks. Here, based on the combined finite-discrete element method, two series of models with uniformly-distributed and Weibull...
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Paper presented at the 55th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 18–25, 2021
Paper Number: ARMA-2021-1810
... the direction of hydraulic fracture propagation and make the hydraulic fracture deflect towards the direction of vertical maximum horizontal principal stress. And the pore pressure has a bidirectional effect on fracture propagation. The influence of the initial pore pressure on the direction of hydraulic...
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Paper presented at the 55th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 18–25, 2021
Paper Number: ARMA-2021-1836
... reservoir characterization hydraulic fracturing hydraulic fracture propagation coefficient matrix equation ARMA 21 1836 XFEM simulation for Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Saturated Porous Medium Sircar, Subhadeep Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Maji, V. B. Indian...
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Paper presented at the 53rd U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, June 23–26, 2019
Paper Number: ARMA-2019-0250
.... However, few studies have been done on the simulation of hydraulic fracture propagation under real Bakken Formation's mechanical properties and field stresses. The objective of this study was to investigate numerically the effects of the in-situ stresses and formation properties on the geometry...

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