...Yanan Sun; Guoyin Zhang; Michael G. Edwards; Chenfeng Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to systematically investigate the hydraulic fracture branching phenomena in porous media under different loading conditions and the stepwise phenomenon. The effect of the pore pressure in hydraulic...

...Tao Wang; Zhanli Liu; Yue Gao; Xuan Ye; Zhuo Zhuang Purpose The interaction between hydraulic fracture (HF) and natural fracture (NF) in naturally fractured rocks is critical for hydraulic fracturing. This paper aims to focus on investigating the development of tensile and shear debonding zone...

...Qinglei Zeng; Zhanli Liu; Tao Wang; Yue Gao; Zhuo Zhuang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a numerical method to model the simultaneous propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures (HFs) with fluid lags driven from a horizontal wellbore. Design/methodology/approach Fracture...

...Bin Chen; Song Cen; Andrew R. Barron; D.R.J. Owen; Chenfeng Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to systematically investigate the fluid lag phenomena and its influence in the hydraulic fracturing process, including all stages of fluid-lag evolution, the transition between different stages...

...Liliana Rybarska-Rusinek; Ewa Rejwer; Alexander Linkov Purpose At present numerical simulation of seismicity, used in mining and hydraulic fracturing practice, is quite time expensive what hampers its combined employing with observed seismicity in real time. The purpose of this paper is to suggest...