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Fractures form the main pathways for flow in the subsurface within low-permeability rock. For this reason, accurately predicting flow and transport in fractured systems is vital for improving the performance of subsurface applications.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Karra , D. O'Malley , J. D. Hyman , H. S. Viswanathan , G. Srinivasan

PyFR is an open-source cross-platform computational fluid dynamics framework based on the high-order Flux Reconstruction approach, specifically designed for undertaking high-accuracy scale-resolving simulations in the vicinity of complex…

A novel hydraulic fracture (HF) formulation is introduced which accounts for the hydraulically induced shear stress at the crack faces. It utilizes a general form of the elasticity operator alongside a revised fracture propagation condition…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-12-13 Michal Wrobel , Gennady Mishuris , Andrea Piccolroaz

ResFrac is a combined hydraulic fracturing, reservoir, and hydraulic fracturing simulator. It describes multiphase fluid flow (black oil or compositional), proppant transport, transport of non-Newtonian fluid additives, and thermal…

We develop a novel Hybrid High-Order method for the simulation of Darcy flows in fractured porous media. The discretization hinges on a mixed formulation in the bulk region and on a primal formulation inside the fracture. Salient features…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Florent Chave , Daniele Di Pietro , Luca Formaggia

We present a hybrid-mixed finite element method for a novel hybrid-dimensional model of single-phase Darcy flow in a fractured porous media. In this model, the fracture is treated as an $(d-1)$-dimensional interface within the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Guosheng Fu , Yang Yang

Many geophysical flow or wave propagation problems can be modeled with two-dimensional depth-averaged equations, of which the shallow water equations are the simplest example. We describe the GeoClaw software that has been designed to solve…

Geophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Marsha J. Berger , David L. George , Randall J. LeVeque , Kyle Mandli

This paper proposes a parallel numerical algorithm to simulate the flow and the transport in a discrete fracture network taking into account the mass exchanges with the surrounding matrix. The discretization of the Darcy fluxes is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Feng Xing , Roland Masson , Simon Lopez

This paper develops and benchmarks an immersed peridynamics method to simulate the deformation, damage, and failure of hyperelastic materials within a fluid-structure interaction framework. The immersed peridynamics method describes an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Keon Ho Kim , Amneet P. S. Bhalla , Boyce E. Griffith

Geological settings with reservoir characteristics include fractures with different material and geometrical properties. Hence, numerical simulations in applied geophysics demands for computational frameworks which efficiently allow to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Patrick Zulian , Philipp Schädle , Liudmila Karagyaur , Maria Nestola

The use of machine learning in fluid dynamics is becoming more common to expedite the computation when solving forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. Yet, a notable challenge with existing convolutional neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Siming Shan , Pengkai Wang , Song Chen , Jiaxu Liu , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

A multi-scale scheme for the invasion percolation of rock fracture networks with heterogeneous fracture aperture fields is proposed. Inside fractures, fluid transport is calculated on the finest scale and found to be localized in channels…

Geophysics · Physics 2014-08-22 Ali N. Ebrahimi , Falk K. Wittel , Nuno A. M. Araújo , Hans J. Herrmann

Level set method, introduced by Osher and Sethian [1], is a highly robust and accurate computational technique for tracking of moving interfaces in etching, deposition and photolithography processes. It originates from the idea to view the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav Radenovic , S. J. Kim , J. K. Lee

The paper develops a method for the numerical simulation of a free-surface flow of incompressible viscous fluid around a streamlined body. The body is a rigid stationary construction partially submerged in the fluid. The application we are…

Variational phase field fracture models are now widely used to simulate crack propagation in structures. A critical aspect of these simulations is the correct determination of the propagation threshold of pre-existing cracks, as it highly…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Flavien Loiseau , Veronique Lazarus

We present a three-dimensional model, based on cohesive spherical particles, of rain-induced landslides. The rainwater infiltration into the soil follow the either the fractional or the fractal diffusion equations. We solve analytically the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Gianluca Martelloni , Franco Bagnoli , Alessio Guarino

We present a new model for two phase Darcy flows in fractured media, in which fractures are modelled as submanifolds of codimension one with respect to the surrounding domain (matrix). Fractures can act as drains or as barriers, since…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Jerome Droniou , Julian Hennicker , Roland Masson

Transport properties of three-dimensional self-affine rough fractures are studied by means of an effective-medium analysis and numerical simulations using the Lattice-Boltzmann method. The numerical results show that the effective-medium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 German Drazer , Joel Koplik

A variational modeling framework for hydraulically induced fracturing of elastic-plastic solids is developed in the present work. The developed variational structure provides a global minimization problem. While fracture propagation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-11 Daniel Kienle , Marc-Andre Keip

Plastic deformation of most crystalline materials is due to the motion of lattice dislocations. Therefore, the simulation of the interaction and dynamics of these defects has become state-of-the-art method to study work hardening, size…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-02 Gábor Péterffy , Péter Dusán Ispánovity