Simulating fully three-dimensional pressurized fracture propagation

We report the progress on a new computational technique for fully three-dimensional simulation of propagation of hydraulic fractures in the vicinity of a wellbore. One of the components of this technique is the boundary element code for modeling the elastic deformation of rock containing pressurized cracks developed previously by the first Author (see Nikolskiy, Mogilevskaya & Labuz, 2015). This code requires the use of only surface mesh, which...