2023
Journal Articles
Modeling of solids particle diversion to promote uniform growth of multiple hydraulic fractures
Journal Of Petroleum Science And Engineering. 2023-01-01. Vol. 220, p. 111159. DOI : 10.1016/j.petrol.2022.111159.2022
Journal Articles
Laboratory investigation of hydraulic fracture growth in Zimbabwe gabbro
Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth. 2022-10-25. Vol. 127, p. e2022JB025678. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB025678.Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: constant release from a point source
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022-10-18. Vol. 950, p. A12. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2022.800.Improving the Accuracy of Fracture Toughness Measurement in Burst Experiments
Rock Mechanics And Rock Engineering. 2022-10-10. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-022-03097-y.Weakening effect of various pore fluids on the tensile strength of granite
Geomechanics And Geophysics For Geo-Energy And Geo-Resources. 2022-10-01. Vol. 8, num. 5, p. 144. DOI : 10.1007/s40948-022-00452-9.Long-term triggered seismicity on the Mosha fault by Damavand volcano, Iran: Implications on the seismic hazard of Tehran metropolis
Frontiers in Earth Science. 2022-09-14. Vol. 10. DOI : 10.3389/feart.2022.945297.The influence of roughness on experimental fault mechanical behaviour and associated microseismicity
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2022-08-07. Vol. 127, num. 8. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB025113.Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2022. Vol. 160, p. 104754. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104754.Conference Papers
Experimental investigation of hydraulic fracture growth in an anisotropic rock with pre-existing discontinuities under different propagation regimes
2022. 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA , June 26–29, 2022. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2022-0239.Talks
Numerical simulations of mixed shear and opening modes fluid driven fracture propagation on pre-existing discontinuities
The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS Congress 2022,, Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.Hydraulic fracturing experiments in quasi- brittle rocks
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July 2022.When, and for how long, two tough layers can contain the propagation of a fracture driven by the injection of a viscous fluid
8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2022), Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.The Transient Phase of Planar, Three-Dimensional Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures Emerging from a Point Source
The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2022), Oslo, 5 – 9 June.The birth and death of buoyant hydraulic fractures
Swiss Mech Seminar Series, Online organized by ETH Zürich, April 14, 2022.Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July.Spatio-temporal patterns of fluid-driven aseismic slip transients: implications to seismic swarms
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May, 2022.Steadily Moving Semi-Infinite Hydraulic Fracture in a Poroelastic Media
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Irland, 4 – 8 July 2022.Teaching Resources
Elastodynamics – notes for earthquake source physics
2022-07-18.2021
Journal Articles
A plane‐strain hydraulic fracture driven by a shear‐thinning Carreau fluid
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2021-04-02. Vol. 45, num. 11, p. 1603-1623. DOI : 10.1002/nag.3216.Arrest of a radial hydraulic fracture upon shut-in of the injection
International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2021-03-06. Vol. 219-220, p. 151-165. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2021.02.022.Propagation of a plane-strain hydraulic fracture accounting for a rough cohesive zone
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2021-01-24. Vol. 149, p. 104322. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104322.Conference Papers
Combining active and passive acoustic methods to image hydraulic fracture growth in laboratory experiments
2021-09-22. Mechanics and Rock Engineering from Theory to Practice – the 2021 ISRM International Symposium (EUROCK 2021), Torino, Italy, September, 20-24, 2021. p. 012088. DOI : 10.1088/1755-1315/833/1/012088.Remembering François H. Cornet’s contribution to the geomechanics and geophysics communities
2021-08-31. 55th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 18-25, 2021.Aseismic slip propagation in fractured rock masses driven by pore-fluid diffusion
2021-08-01. 55th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 20-23, 2021.Theses
Hydraulic fracture growth in quasi-brittle materials
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021.Posters
Limiting Regimes of a Three-Dimensional Buoyant Hydraulic Fracture Emerging from a Point Source
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA, USA, 13 – 17 December 2021.A Scaling Relation Between the Moment Release due to Aseismic Motion and the Injected Volume of Fluid
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, December 13-17, 2021.Talks
The breakthrough time of a hydraulic fracture contained between two tough layers
19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva 2021, [Online], 19-20 November 2021.Interaction and coalescence of fluid-driven fractures: numerical predictions versus experiments
APS physics March Meeting 2021, [Online], March 15-19, 2021.Scaling as a key component of the modelling of fluid driven fractures
2nd International conference on coupled processes in fractured geological media: observations, modeling and applications – CouFrac 2020, Seoul, Korea, 11-13 November 2020.Simulations of hydraulic fracture initiation, growth and closure driven by a viscoplastic mud
14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, online, 11-15 January 2021.Three-dimensional aseismic ruptures driven by fluid injection
EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, April 19-30, 2021.Improved fracture front reconstruction in planar 3D fluid driven fractures simulation
14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV) and 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2020) (Eccomas Congress 2020 & 14th WCCM), Virtual Congress, January 11-15, 2021.Student Projects
Physics Informed Neural Networks for Surrogate Modelling and Inverse Problems in Geotechnics
2021-07-13.Revisiting the Pohang Induced Earthquake
2021-07-13.Rock Heterogeneity and Fractures
2021-07-13.2020
Journal Articles
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
International Journal For Numerical And Analytical Methods In Geomechanics. 2020-09-11. Vol. 44, num. 18, p. 2524-2526. DOI : 10.1002/nag.3141.A fast boundary element based solver for localized inelastic deformations
International Journal For Numerical Methods In Engineering. 2020-08-28. Vol. 121, num. 24, p. 5696-5718. DOI : 10.1002/nme.6520.Time-lapse reconstruction of the fracture front from diffracted waves arrivals in laboratory hydraulic fracture experiments
Geophysical Journal International. 2020-06-23. Vol. 223, num. 1, p. 180-196. DOI : 10.1093/gji/ggaa310.Planar hydraulic fracture growth perpendicular to the isotropy plane in a transversely isotropic material
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2020-01-17. Vol. 137, p. 103878. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103878.PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator
Computer Physics Communications. 2020. Vol. 255, p. 1-11, 107368. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107368.Modeling of Simultaneous Propagation of Multiple Blade‑Like Hydraulic Fractures from a Horizontal Well
Rock Mechanics Rock Engineering. 2020. Vol. 53, p. 1701–1718. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-019-02002-4.Theses
Hydraulic stimulation of pre-existing discontinuities in tight rocks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.Propagation of fluid driven fractures in transversely isotropic material
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020.Posters
Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source
EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4 – 8 May 2020.Talks
Transition from a radial to a 3D buoyancy-driven hydraulic fracture
18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020 (SGM 2020), Zürich, Switzerland, 6 – 7 September 2020.Laboratory studies of hydraulic fracture growth in quasi-brittle rocks with different grain sizes
18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 7 November 2020.Student Projects
In-situ stress and rock characterisation via dry reopening test
2020-07-14.Numerical back-analysis & future risk assessment of the Hirschigraben landslide(s)
2020-01-24.2019
Journal Articles
Slickwater hydraulic fracture propagation: near-tip and radial geometry solutions
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2019-10-10. Vol. 880, p. 514-550. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2019.716.Propagation of a fluid-driven fracture with fracture length dependent apparent toughness
Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2019-08-21. Vol. 220, p. 106616. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.106616.On stepwise advancement of fractures and pressure oscillations in saturated porous media
Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2019-06-15. Vol. 215, p. 246-250. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.05.006.Effect of dilatancy on the transition from aseismic to seismic slip due to fluid injection in a fault
Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth. 2019-05-25. Vol. 124, p. 3724-3743. DOI : 10.1029/2018JB016636.Dynamics of fracturing saturated porous media and self-organization of rupture
European Journal Of Mechanics A-Solids. 2019-03-01. Vol. 74, p. 471-484. DOI : 10.1016/j.euromechsol.2018.12.004.Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2019. Vol. 43, num. 6, p. 1300-1315. DOI : 10.1002/nag.2898.Conference Papers
Propagation of a planar hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material
2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium , New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.Effects of spatial variation of cluster entry friction on hydraulic fracture propagation in multistage fracturing
2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.Propagation of a plane-strain hydraulic fracture accounting for the presence of a cohesive zone and a fluid lag
2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, New York City, June, 23-26, 2019.Growth of a radial hydraulic fracture accounting for the viscous fluid flow in a rough cohesive zone
2019. 2019 ARMA-CUPB Geothermal International Conference, Beijing, China, August 5-8, 2019.Reports
STIMDESIGN: Hydraulic stimulation design for deep geothermal reservoirs – a numerical approach
2019-11-01
Posters
Fluid injection driven, a-seismic fracture growth with remote nucleation on heterogeneous fault
SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2019, EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 – 4 September 2019.A-seismic fracture growth driven by fluid injection and remote nucleation of dynamic rupture in a weaker part of the fault
Third Schatzalp Workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, 5 – 8 March, 2019.Talks
Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth.
CFRAC 2019: VI International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Braunschweig, Germany, 12-14 June 2019.2018
Journal Articles
Impact of the anisotropy of fracture toughness on the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fracture
International Journal of Fracture. 2018-03-16. Vol. 211, num. 1-2, p. 103-123. DOI : 10.1007/s10704-018-0278-7.A mechanically-based model of snow slab and weak layer fracture in the Propagation Saw Test
International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2018-02-09. Vol. 158, p. 1-20. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2017.12.033.A lined hole in a viscoelastic rock under biaxial far-field stress
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2018. Vol. 106, p. 350-363. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2018.02.019.Immersive Wave Propagation Experimentation: Physical Implementation and One-Dimensional Acoustic Results
Physical Review X. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 3, p. 031011. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031011.A semi-infinite hydraulic fracture driven by a shear-thinning fluid
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018. Vol. 838, p. 573-605. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2017.900.Numerical methods for hydraulic fracture propagation: a review of recent trends
Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 2018. Vol. 49, p. 66-83. DOI : 10.1016/j.jngse.2017.10.012.Conference Papers
Accounting for near-wellbore fracture behavior to unlock the potential of unconventional gas wells
2018-06-29. 27th World Gas Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 25-29.Talks
Hydraulic fracture growth in transversely isotropic rocks
Warren Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA,Hydraulic fracture growth & turbulent flow
Departmental seminar, Skolkovo Institute of Technology, Moscow,Propagation of a Radial Fluid-driven Fracture in Nonlinear Solid –around the tip of a fluid-driven fracture: process zone vs deviated fluid flow
International Summer School on Mechanics and Physics of Stretchable Objects (MEPHiSTO 2018), Cargese, Corsica, France, 7-17 August 2018 .Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture growth: advances & remaining challenges
10th European Sold Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy, July 2-6, 2018.The Importance of coupling wellbore hydraulic & simultaneous fractures propagation in multistage design
2018 ARMA-DGS Workshop: the Role of Geomechanics in Stimulations, Bahrain, April 3-5, 2018.Slickwater is not water
Hydraulic Fracturing: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment workshop 18w5085 – Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, June 3-8.2017
Journal Articles
The Role of Geological Barriers in Achieving Robust Well Integrity
Energy Procedia. 2017. Vol. 114, p. 5193-5205. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1673.Experiments versus theory for the initiation and propagation of radial hydraulic fractures in low permeability materials
Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 2017. Vol. 122, num. 2, p. 1239-1263. DOI : 10.1002/2016JB013183.Propagation of a height contained hydraulic fracture in turbulent flow regimes
International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2017. Vol. 110-111, p. 265-278. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2016.12.029.Book Chapters
Four Critical Issues for Successful Hydraulic Fracturing Applications
Rock Mechanics and Engineering; CRC Press, 2017.Posters
Modeling of the propagation of hydraulic fracture using cohesive zone models
15th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Davos, Switzerland, November 17-18,2017.Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault
2nd Induced Seismicity Workshop, Davos-Schatzalp, March 14-17, 2017.Effect of dilatancy on a frictional weakening fault subjected to fluid injection
European Geoscience Union, Vienna, April 23-28, 2017.Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault
6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Champs-sur-Marne, Paris, July 9-13, 2017.Talks
Torsion and bending failure of skew notched beams: 3D numerical modelling of quasi brittle materials with the mixed strain-displacement FEM
COMPLAS 2017. XIV International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications, UPC- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, 5th-7th September 2017.High-fidelity numerical analysis of experimental tests on concrete specimens via mixed strain-displacement FE
CMN 2017 – Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering , Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Spain, 3rd-5th July 2017 .Modeling the growth of planar 3D hydraulic fractures in the presence of in-situ stress contrast
Tip asymptotic of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid accounting for the presence of a fluid lag
6th International Conference on Coupled THMC Processes in Geosystems, Paris, France, July 5-7, 2017.Hydraulic Fractures – Modeling and realities
Workshop on Multiphysics, Multiscale, and Coupled Problems in Subsurface Physics, Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics, An NSF Math Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca, USA, April 3-7, 2017.Geothermal for Electricity Production: dreams & realities
Geothermal Energy Day, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands, March 23, 2017.Hydraulic fracturing and induced seismicity
2nd Schatzalp workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, March 14-17, 2017.Patents
In-situ property determination
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2017-07-20.