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Ahmed Yosri, Maysara Ghaith, Mohamed Ismaiel Ahmed and Wael El-Dakhakhni
The efficient management and remediation of contaminated fractured aquifers necessitate an accurate prediction of the spatial distribution of contaminant concentration within the system. Related existing analytical solutions are only applicable to single...
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Ling Zhou, Peng Yan, Yanjun Zhang, Honglei Lei, Shuren Hao, Yueqiang Ma and Shaoyou Sun
The optimization of the production scheme for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) in geothermal fields is crucial for enhancing heat production efficiency and prolonging the lifespan of thermal reservoirs. In this study, the 4100?4300 m granite diorite str...
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Chunlin Zhong, Kangsheng Xue, Yakun Wang, Peng Luo and Xiaobo Liu
Understanding the fluid pattern is of special significance for estimating the hydraulic conductivity of fractured rock masses. The nonlinearity of fluid flow in discrete fracture networks (DFNs) originates from inertial effects and is enhanced by complex...
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Pedro Ojeda, Davide Elmo, Steve Rogers and Andres Brzovic
Volumetric fracture intensity (P32) is a parameter that plays a major role in the mechanical and hydraulic behaviour of rock masses. While methods such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) are available to map the 3D geometrical characteristics of the fract...
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Jianyuan Li, Xiaochun Lu, Ping Zhang and Qingquan Li
The timely identification and detection of surface cracks in concrete dams, an important public safety infrastructure, is of great significance in predicting engineering hazards and ensuring dam safety. Due to their low efficiency and accuracy, manual de...
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Cunfei Ma, Xianxu Fang, Xiaonan Ma, Xiantai Liu, Bingkun Xu and Xinmin Ge
By combining thermal simulation experiments with core data, thin sections, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), source rock, and high-pressure mercury and gas adsorption analysis, this paper evaluates the properties and models of shale reservoirs in the u...
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Dennis Delali Kwesi Wayo, Sonny Irawan, Alfrendo Satyanaga and Jong Kim
Data-driven models with some evolutionary optimization algorithms, such as particle swarm optimization (PSO) and ant colony optimization (ACO) for hydraulic fracturing of shale reservoirs, have in recent times been validated as one of the best-performing...
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Jie Zhang, Jianjun Wu, Tao Yang, Sen Yang, Yifeng He and Shoushi Gao
With the gradual increase in the mining depth of coal resources, the destruction of the rock structure of the inter-layered rock of the near coal seam under the influence of mining has led to the frequent occurrence of water-inrush disasters in mines, wh...
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Yiwei Liu, Yi Hu and Yong Kang
Natural fractures play a significant role in creating a fracture network simulation treatment. In this work, global cohesive elements were incorporated into the cohesive zone method to realize the unprompted propagation of a hydraulic fracture. The step-...
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Peitao Wang, Cao Liu, Zhenwu Qi, Zhichao Liu and Meifeng Cai
The geometry of the joint determines the mechanical properties of the rock mass and is one of the key factors affecting the failure mode of surrounding rock masses. In this paper, a new rough discrete fractures network (RDFN) characterization method base...
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