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physics.geo-ph2018★ 95 cited
Branching of Hydraulic Cracks in Gas or Oil Shale with Closed Natural Fractures: How to Master Permeability
Saeed Rahimi-Agham, Viet-Tuan Chau, Huynjin Lee +7
While the hydraulic fracturing technology, aka fracking (or fraccing, frac), has become highly developed and astonishingly successful, a consistent formulation of the associated fr…
physics.geo-ph2014★ 2 cited
Why Fracking Works and How to Optimize It
Z. P. Bazant, M. Salviato, V. T. Chau
Although spectacular advances in hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, have taken place and many aspects are well understood by now, the topology, geometry and evolution of the crack…