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Reply to comments on "Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth" (Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech., 2019, 43 (6), 1300-1315)" by Prof. Linkov

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

We reply to Prof. Linkov comments on our article entitled "Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth" (Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech., 2019, 43 (6), 1300-1315). We present additional results ind ...

WILEY2020

Planar hydraulic fracture growth perpendicular to the isotropy plane in a transversely isotropic material

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia, Fatima-Ezzahra Moukhtari

The configuration of a hydraulic fracture (HF) propagating perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic (TI) material is encountered in most sedimentary basins. We account for both elastic and fracture toughness anisotropy, and investiga ...

2020

PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

Fluid driven fractures propagate in the upper earth crust either naturally or in response to engineeredfluid injections. The quantitative prediction of their evolution is critical in order to better understandtheir dynamics as well as to optimize their cre ...

2020

Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

The proper computation of the time evolution of the fracture front is the main challenge of three-dimensional (3D) hydraulic fracture growth simulation. We discuss explicit and implicit variants of a hydraulic fracture propagation scheme based on a level s ...

2019

Propagation of a planar hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia, Fatima-Ezzahra Moukhtari

We investigate the case of a hydraulic fracture (HF) propagating perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material: a relevant configuration for the growth of HFs in sedimentary rocks where fractures are propagating vertically across ...

53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium2019

Slickwater hydraulic fracture propagation: near-tip and radial geometry solutions

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

We quantify the importance of turbulent flow on the propagation of hydraulic fractures (HF) accounting for the addition of friction reducing agents to the fracturing fluid (slickwater fluid). The addition in small quantities of a high molecular weight poly ...

Cambridge University Press2019

Impact of the anisotropy of fracture toughness on the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fracture

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia, Weihan Zhang

Sedimentary rocks often exhibit a transverse isotropy due to fine scale layering. We investigate the effect of the anisotropy of fracture toughness on the propagation of a planar 3D hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane: a configuration co ...

2018

Propagation of a height contained hydraulic fracture in turbulent flow regimes

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

We investigate theoretically and numerically the impact of the transition from laminar to turbulent flow on the propagation of a height contained hydraulic fracture (i.e. PKN geometry). We account for the inertial terms in the balance of momentum and expre ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Laminar - turbulent transition in the propagation of height contained hydraulic fracture

Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Haseeb Zia

High injection rate hydraulic fracturing can have Reynolds number as high as 10000. For such high Reynolds numbers, turbulent flow is likely to occur. In this paper, we investigate the effect of turbulence on the propagation of hight contained hydraulic fr ...

2016