Fracture arrest in layered rock sequences is important in many geodynamic processes, such as dyke-fed volcanic eruptions, earthquake ruptures, landslides, and the evolution of plate boundaries. Yet it remains poorly ...

The inclusion of special interface elements between standard finite elements is becoming a common technique to model discontinuities in porous media using the finite element method (FEM). Recently, it was proved that high ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a technique based on the injection of a viscous fluid at high pressure into an engineered well with the intention of initiating and propagating multiple fractures in a rock formation containing ...

This work aims to apply a sensitivity analysis to determine the influence of natural fractures in a cross section of rock reservoir cell, assessing the equivalent permeability of the medium. Using finite elements with high ...

Modelling the process of induced fracture initiation, propagation and interaction with natural fractures is a very challenged task. Significant progress has been made in recent years in the development of complex fracture ...

We present a numerical technique capable of handling evolving fractures in rocks triggered by coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) phenomena. The approach is formulated in the context of the finite-element method (FEM) ...