...Zdeněk P. Bažant; Anh Tay Nguyen Generation of a large network of hydraulic cracks is of key importance not only for the success of fracking of shale but also for the recent scheme of sequestration of CO 2 in deep formations of basalt and peridotite, which are mafic and ultramafic rocks...

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... 07 12 2017 Flow Hydraulics Internal flow Stress analysis Fracture References [1] Spence , D. A. , and Sharp , P. , 1985 , “ Self-Similar Solutions for Elastohydrodynamic Cavity Flow ,” Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. A , 400 ( 1819 ), pp. 289 – 313 . 10.1098/rspa...

... ]. Therefore, the oil film damping plays an important role in gear dynamics, impact resistance, and noise reduction [ 3 , 4 ]. Computational mechanics Dynamics Hydraulics Vibration 16 10 2017 07 12 2017 Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for publication...

... the fracking treatment procedure. These results are comparable with data from the field engineering. The theoretical and numerical models are developed in this paper to predict the tensile and shear debonding of the bedding planes in anisotropic layered shales under hydraulic fracturing...

... received August 18, 2017; published online September 8, 2017. Editor: Yonggang Huang. 16 05 2017 18 08 2017 Elasticity Heat transfer Hydraulics In recent decades, the extremely rapid development of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) in nanoscience has shown the feasibility...

...Viet T. Chau; Cunbao Li; Saeed Rahimi-Aghdam; Zdeněk P. Bažant The existing commercial programs for simulation of hydraulic fracturing (aka fracking, or frac) of gas (or oil) shale predict parallel vertical cracks to spread in vertical parallel planes, with no lateral branching. These cracks...

...Qinglei Zeng; Tao Wang; Zhanli Liu; Zhuo Zhuang Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technology in gas or oil shale engineering is highly developed last decades, but the knowledge of the actual fracking process is mostly empirical and makes mechanicians and petroleum engineers wonder: why fracking works...

...., trucks, oil tankers, planes, and spaceships) [ 3 , 4 ]. On the other hand, such forces can also be effectively utilized for the design of vibration absorbers to mitigate the detrimental influence of large-amplitude oscillations of civil structures [ 5 – 9 ]. Dynamics Hydraulics Vibration...

... shear is useful for glacial hydrology models. 1 Corresponding author. Manuscript received September 7, 2016; final manuscript received September 21, 2016; published online October 18, 2016. Editor: Yonggang Huang. 07 09 2016 21 09 2016 Computational mechanics Hydraulics...

... 07 2015 Constitutive modeling Elasticity Hydraulics Thermodynamics Materials A theory for addressing coupled problems concerning fluid-saturated deformable porous solids with diffusive fluid transport is of importance for a variety of engineering applications. The classical linear...

... in the J OURNAL OF A PPLIED M ECHANICS . Manuscript received May 29, 2015; final manuscript received July 10, 2015; published online July 22, 2015. Editor: Yonggang Huang. 29 05 2015 10 07 2015 Elasticity Hydraulics Micromechanics Nanofluidic channels fabricated by cracking...

... h E ' respectively, and parameter A (37) , with A KGD = 2 / SE ' . It is worthwhile to mention that the results of this study can be used in the production pressure transient data analysis (well testing) of a propped hydraulic fracture...

... of the crown cone and highly swirling outer flow. Hydraulics Internal flow Turbulence Hydropower is a renewable and sustainable energy source with many technical, economical, and environmental benefits. Storage capability and fast response make hydropower an ideal form of power generation...

...% of the best efficiency point (BEP) flow rate. This results in improvement of the draft tube performance and reduction of hydraulic losses. The loss coefficient is reduced by as much as 50% for the case with 91% of BEP flow rate and 14% for the case with 70% of BEP flow rate. Unsteady, three-dimensional...