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Modeling Hydraulic Fracturing Initiation And Propagation In Porous Rock Formationsl, Chang Huang
Modeling Hydraulic Fracturing Initiation And Propagation In Porous Rock Formationsl, Chang Huang
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Hydraulic fracturing has long been introduced to the oil and gas industry since the early nineteenth century for both reservoir characterization and reservoir stimulation. Despite the progress made in the last two decades, many challenges still have not been tackled regarding not only the propagation problem but also the initiation problem due to its complexity. The dissertation is divided into two stages, i.e., before and after fracture initiation. The first stage of the research aimed at improving the accuracy in solving the poro-mechanical response of wellbore during fluid injection before a tensile fracture occurs, which is crucial to determine the …