Along with horizontal drilling techniques, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing has improved shale
gas production significantly in past decades. In order to understand the mechanism of …

Abstract Development of numerical methods for hydraulic fracture simulation has
accelerated in the past two decades. Recent advances in hydraulic fracture modeling and …

Shale reservoirs are extensively exploited using hydraulic fracturing, which forms multiple
cracks that connect with the existing natural fractures to create a continuous path for the gas …

Peridynamics (PD) is a novel continuum mechanics theory established by Stewart Silling in
2000. The roots of PD can be traced back to the early works of Gabrio Piola according to …

In this paper, a novel 3D conjugated bond-pair-based peridynamic model is proposed to
simulate the initiation and propagation of cracks in brittle solids. In the proposed numerical …

Computational modeling of the initiation and propagation of complex fracture is central to the
discipline of engineering fracture mechanics. This review focuses on two promising …

In this paper, crack propagation and coalescence behaviors in rock specimens containing
pre-existing open flaws under uniaxial compression are investigated using the novel …

This paper presents a hybrid modeling approach for simulating hydraulic fracture
propagation in saturated porous media: ordinary state-based peridynamics is used to …

Rigorous coupling of fracture–porous medium fluid flow and topologically complex fracture
propagation is of great scientific interest in geotechnical and biomechanical applications. In …

This paper deals with the numerical simulation of initiation and propagation of mixed mode
fracture in rocks. A bond-level energy-based peridynamic model is developed by introducing …