... in cases where such type of fracture is present. The numerical model incorporates rock and fluid mechanics associated with the hydraulic fracturing process and computes strain fields in the medium using Displacement Discontinuity Method (DDM). DDM is a type of Boundary Element Method (BEM) that applies...

... of their interactions. During the stimulation stage of hydraulic treatment, the fracture propagation is modeled by prescribing gradually increased fracture size and calculating the displacement discontinuities that representing fractures at each step. After the stimulation stops, we assume the fracture extent...

... the fracture height containment or predict fracture geometry under the influence of multiple bedding planes. This paper introduces a coupled three-dimensional hydraulic fracture propagation model considering the effects of bedding planes. In this model, a fully threedimensional displacement discontinuity...