2020
Journal Articles
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. [Article in Press], 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.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.Student Projects
Numerical back-analysis & future risk assessment of the Hirschigraben landslide(s)
2020-01-24.2019
Journal Articles
Modeling of Simultaneous Propagation of Multiple Blade‑Like Hydraulic Fractures from a Horizontal Well
Rock Mechanics Rock Engineering. 2019-11-16. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-019-02002-4.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. p. 1-16. 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.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
US2017204726; US9647765; US2016134377; US9264147; WO2011119897; US2011274429; WO2011119897.
2017-07-20.2016
Conference Papers
The role of geological barriers in achieving robust well integrity
2016. 13th Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-13), Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 14-18, 2016.Laminar – turbulent transition in the propagation of height contained hydraulic fracture
2016. American Rock Mechanics Association Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 26-29, 2016.Posters
The tip region of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid
SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2016, Sion, Switzerland, September 12-13, 2016.Fluid injection in a frictional weakening fracture
SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2016, Sion, Switzerland, September 13, 2016.The tip region of a hydraulic fracture driven by a power law fluid
14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.Acoustic monitoring of laboratory hydraulic fracture growth under stress and pore pressure
14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.Simulating fully three-dimensional pressurized fracture propagation
14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault
14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.Talks
A new mechanical framework to interpret weak layer and slab fracture in the propagation saw test
ISSW 2016 – International Snow Science Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, United States, 3rd-7th October 2016.Impact of the propagation algorithm on the convergence rate of hydraulic fracturing simulator to reference solutions
ECCOMAS Congress 2016, Crete Island, Greece, June 5-10, 2016.Implicit level set scheme to model the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fractures
14th Swiss Geosciences Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, November 18, 2016.Turbulent – laminar transition in the propagation of height-contained hydraulic fracture
European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 17–22, 2016.Fluid Driven Fractures – Modeling and realities
SCCER / SoE Geo-Energy seminar, Zurich, Switzerland, October 14, 2016.Fluid-driven fractures: modeling and realities
Annual MAGS-2 / SHynergie Projects Workshop, Bochum, Germany, October 4-5, 2016.2015
Journal Articles
Robustness to formation geological heterogeneities of the limited entry technique for multi-stage fracturing of horizontal wells
Rock Mechanics And Rock Engineering. 2015. Vol. 48, num. 6, p. 2637-2644. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-015-0836-5.Full-wavefield modeling and reverse time migration of laser ultrasound data: A feasibility study
Geophysics. 2015. Vol. 80, num. 6, p. D553-D563. DOI : 10.1190/geo2015-0020.1.Pressure-Driven Suspension Flow near Jamming
Physical Review Letters. 2015. Vol. 114, num. 8. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.088301.Simultaneous initiation and growth of multiple radial hydraulic fractures from a horizontal wellbore
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2015. Vol. 82, p. 235-258. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2015.05.010.Conference Papers
Geomechanical drivers of the (in)-efficiencies of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing
2015. Second EAGE Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy, Celle, Germany, October 13-15, 2015.Modeling Simultaneous Initiation and Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore
2015. 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM 13), San Diego, Ca, July 26-30, 2015.Well Integrity and CO2 injection: Interface debonding in a cased and cemented wellbore as a potential risk
2015. Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, Barcelona, Spain, June 2–4, 2015.Can we engineer better multistage horizontal completions? Evidence of the importance of near-wellbore fracture geometry from theory, lab and field experiments
2015. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, February 3-5, 2015.Initiation versus Breakdown pressure of transverse hydraulic fracture: theory and experiments
2015. 13th ISRM International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Montreal, May 10-13, 2015.Laboratory study of the Effect of well Orientation, Completion Design and rock fabric on near-wellbore hydraulic fracture geometry in shales
2015. 13th ISRM International Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Montreal, May 10-13, 2015.Talks
A Mixed Finite Element Formulation For Geotechnical Problems Involving Localization In Plasticity
COMPLAS 2015 – XIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Applications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalana, Barcelona, Spain, 1st-3rd September 2015.Mixed FE for strain localization in plasticity
CMN 2015 – Conference on Numerical Methods in Engineering , Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, 29th June – 2nd July 2015.Mixed strain-displacement finite elements for landslide and avalanche release prediction
EMI 2015 – Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Stanford University, California, United States, 16th-19th June 2015.Towards a unified solution of localization failure with mixed finite elements
EGU – European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2015, Vienna, Austria, 12th-17th April 2015.Particle laden fluids in hydraulic fracturing
68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Boston, Massachussets, USA, November 21-23, 2015.Hydraulic fracturing for unconventional resources development: challenges & opportunities for the mechanical community
ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Houston, Texas, USA, November 13-19, 2015.Introduction to Hydraulic Fracturing Practices in the Oil and Gas Industry
Institute for Mathematics and its Application – Hot-Topic Workshop:Hydraulic Fracturing: From Modeling and Simulation to Reconstruction and Characterization, May 16, 2015.2014
Journal Articles
Scattering amplitude of a single fracture under uniaxial stress
Geophysical Journal International. 2014. Vol. 197, num. 2, p. 875-881. DOI : 10.1093/gji/ggu039.Confined flow of suspensions modelled by a frictional rheology
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2014. Vol. 759, p. 197-235. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2014.557.Conference Papers
Simultaneous Initiation and propagation of multiple transverse hydraulic fractures in a horizontal well
2014. 48th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 1–4 June, 2014.Benefits of Controlled Hydraulic Fracture Placement: Theory and Field Experiment
2014. SPE/CSUR Unconventional Resources Conference, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2014.Limited Height Growth and Reduced Opening of Hydraulic Fractures due to FractureOffsets: An XFEM Application
2014. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 4–6 February, 2014.Reports
1DPlanarHF – Simulation of the initiation and propagation of a single plane-strain or radial hydraulic fracture: algorithm description
2014
Talks
Encompassing incompressibility and strain localization in plasticity with mixed FE
WCCM – XII World Conference on Computational Mechanics 2014, UPC- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Spain, 20th-25th July 2014.Simultaneous initiation and propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures from a horizontal well
Reunion Thématique du Comité Français de Mécanique des Roches – Fracturation artificielle des roches, October 16, 2014.Complex fluid proppant placement in the hydraulic fracturing of oil gas wells
Seminar School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, March 26, 2014.Patents
Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal well
US10267131; US2015218925; CN104755699; WO2014028432.
2014.2013
Journal Articles
Noncontacting benchtop measurements of the elastic properties of shales
Geophysics. 2013. Vol. 78, num. 3, p. C25-C31. DOI : 10.1190/geo2012-0314.1.Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore: Modeling and experiments
International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. 2013. Vol. 18, p. 208-223. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.07.012.A macroscopic poromechanical model of cement hydration
European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering. 2013. Vol. 17, num. 3, p. 176-201. DOI : 10.1080/19648189.2013.768554.Conference Papers
The impact of the near-tip logic on the accuracy and convergence rate of hydraulic fracture simulators compared to reference solutions
2013. The International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 20-22, 2013.Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing using the XFEM
2013. Society of Engineering Science, ASME-AMD Summer Meeting, Brown University School of Engineering, Providence, RI, USA,Competition between transverse and axial hydraulic fractures in horizontal wells
2013. SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas, USA, 4–6 February, 2013.Initiation and Breakdown of an Axisymmetric Hydraulic Fracture Transverse to a Horizontal Wellbore
2013. The International Conference for Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing, Brisbane, Australia, May 20–22, 2013.Reports
Lubrication flow of wet granular medium / dense suspension
2013
Talks
Mixed Finite Elements applied to Slope Stability Problems
COMPLAS 2013 – XII International Conference on Computational Plasticity, UPC- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Spain, 3rd-5th September 2013.Crystallization Preferred Orientation induced by mechanical stresses
Strains induced by phase changes in deformable porous solids: What about building materials ? A workshop supported by Lafarge, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, July 8, 2013.Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore
Friday Geoseminar, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, April 5, 2013.Patents
Method to optimize perforations for hydraulic fracturing in anisotropic earth formations
US2017145818; US9376902; US2013206475.
2013.