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We investigate the burst dynamics during drainage going from low to high injection rate at various fluid viscosities. The bursts are identified as pressure drops in the pressure signal across the system. We find that the statistical…

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The purpose of this study is to investigate morphology of simultaneously propagating hydraulic fractures. Simultaneous propagation of hydraulic fractures occurs during stimulation of horizontal wells, and, in particular, several initiation…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Egor Dontsov

Being motivated by the delivery of drugs and vaccines through subcutaneous (SC) injection in human bodies, a theoretical investigation is performed using a two-dimensional mathematical model in the cartesian coordinate. In general, a large…

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The study of flow in fractured porous media is a key ingredient for many geoscience applications, such as reservoir management and geothermal energy production. Modelling and simulation of these highly heterogeneous and geometrically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Davide Losapio , Anna Scotti

Deep Geothermal Energy, Carbon Capture, and Storage and Hydrogen Storage have significant potential to meet the large-scale needs of the energy sector and reduce the CO$_2$ emissions. However, the injection of fluids into the earth's crust,…

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The behaviour of the Random Anisotropy Ising model at T=0 under local relaxation dynamics is studied. The model includes a dominant ferromagnetic interaction and assumes an infinite anisotropy at each site along local anisotropy axes which…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Eduard Vives , Antoni Planes

Understanding turbulence within the Intracluster Medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters is pivotal for comprehending their evolution and dynamics. Employing 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of galaxy cluster mergers, we examine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian , G. Brunetti , John A. ZuHone

As a typical multiphase fluid flow process, drainage in porous media is of fundamental interest in nature and industrial applications. During drainage processes in unsaturated soils and porous media in general, saturated clusters, in which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-22 Shuoqi Li , Mingchao Liu , Dorian Hanaor , Yixiang Gan

We present a multi-resolution approach for constructing model-based simulations of hydraulic fracturing, wherein flow through porous media is coupled with fluid-driven fracture. The approach consists of a hybrid scheme that couples a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andre Costa , Matteo Cusini , Tao Jin , Randolph Settgast , John Dolbow

A coupled mech-hydro-chemical model for rock geometry alteration of fractures under water-rock interaction (WRI) and geostress is developed. Processes including WRI, asperity deformation, mineral chemical dissolution and pressure…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-04-12 Cheng Yu

To seek for a possible origin of fractal pattern in nature, we perform a molecular dynamics simulation for a fragmentation of an infinite fcc lattice. The fragmentation is induced by the initial condition of the model that the lattice…

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Pressure anisotropy can strongly influence the dynamics of weakly collisional, high-beta plasmas, but its effects are missed by standard magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Small changes to the magnetic-field strength generate large…

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Cohesive particles form agglomerates that are usually very porous. Their geometry, particularly their fractal dimension, depends on the agglomeration process (diffusion-limited or ballistic growth by adding single particles or…

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Using a discrete-element approach and a bonding interaction law, we model and test crushable inherently anisotropic structures reminiscent of the layering found in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. By systematically modifying the level of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 David Cantor , Carlos Ovalle , Emilien Azéma

Although spectacular advances in hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, have taken place and many aspects are well understood by now, the topology, geometry and evolution of the crack system hydraulically produced in the shale still remains an…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-07-08 Z. P. Bazant , M. Salviato , V. T. Chau

Large scale modelling of fluid flow coupled with solid failure in geothermal reservoirs or hydrocarbon extraction from reservoir rocks usually involves behaviours at two scales: lower scale of the inelastic localization zone, and larger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-06-06 Giang D. Nguyen , Abbas El-Zein , Terry Bennett

Improving hydrocarbon production with hydraulic fracturing from unconventional reservoirs requires investigating transport phenomena at the single fracture level. In this study, we simulated geomechanical deformation, fluid flow, and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-21 Morteza Heydari , Feng Liang , Hui-Hai Liu , Behzad Ghanbarian

Structure functions of rough fracture surfaces in isotropic materials exhibit complicated scaling properties due to the broken isotropy in the fracture plane generated by a preferred propagation direction. Decomposing the structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Eran Bouchbinder , Itamar Procaccia , Shani Sela

We formulate a generalisation of the blast-wave model which is suitable for the description of higher order azimuthal anisotropies of the hadron production. The model includes anisotropy in the density profile as well as an anisotropy in…

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