Numerical Modeling for the Material Interface of Heterogeneous Rock at Mesoscale and Hydraulic Fracturing Based on the PHF-LSM-MT

The permeability-based hydraulic fracture(PHF) method is integrated with the level set method(LSM) and Mori-Tanaka(MT) model to study the hydraulic fracture propagation in heterogeneous rock(HR)with the mesoscale material interface being considered. In the proposed method, the PHF method is for simulating the hydraulic fracture propagation, and the LSM is for capturing the material interface with the mesoscale material properties of integration …