T31F:
Numerical and Laboratory Analogue Models of Dykes, Sills, and Hydraulic Fractures Posters


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Session ID#: 51170

Session Description:
Dykes and sills, formed during the magma intrusion process into the upper crust, have been observed in many geological contexts on Earth and other planets. Meanwhile, millions of hydraulic fracturing operations have been carried out in over 60 years of oil, gas, and geothermal reservoir stimulation. The two processes are connected by similar canonical mathematical models and a number of similarities in observed morphologies. However, there are also important differences, both in terms of dominant physical processes and resulting behaviors. Motivated by the similarities and contrasts in both models and observations, the objective of this session is to bring together studies that innovate and utilize numerical and laboratory analogue models to examine the complementarity and similarity of behaviors across natural and engineered fluid-driven fractures. We encourage submissions whereby numerical and/or analogue models are used to guide interpretation of geological observations, promote geochemical/geochronological comparisons, and improve the effectiveness of reservoir stimulation.
Primary Convener:  Wei Fu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Joseph Morris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Delal Gunaydin, University of Pittsburgh, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Andrew Bunger, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wei Fu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Chairs:  Wei Fu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Joseph Morris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Wei Fu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5104 Fracture and flow [PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Vent location forecasts at calderas: a physics-based approach (Invited) (407175)
Eleonora Rivalta1, Fabio Corbi2,3, Luigi Passarelli4, Timothy Davis4, Valerio Acocella5 and Mauro Antonio Di Vito6, (1)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Università Roma Tre, Dip. Scienze, Roma, Italy, (4)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (5)University of Roma Tre, Department of Science, Rome, Italy, (6)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sez. Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
Laboratory Experimentation on Simultaneous Propagation of Multiple Dykes and Hydraulic Fractures (444524)
Delal Gunaydin1, Wei Fu2, Andrew Bunger3 and Cheng Cheng2, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (3)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
A Reduced Order Model for Optimizing Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation of Horizontal Wells (382477)
Cheng Cheng, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States and Andrew Bunger, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
Surface Roughness and Fluid Viscosity Controls on Propagation of a Hydraulic Fracture Across a Frictional Interface (389229)
Saied Mighani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Brian D Kilgore, USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, United States, Carolyn A Morrow, USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, David A Lockner, USGS Earthquake Science Center, Menlo Park, United States and J Brian Evans, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Hydraulic Fracture Propagation Influenced by Spatially-Varied Natural Fracture Properties (450225)
Wei Fu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, Alexei A Savitski, Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Houston, TX, United States, Branko Damjanac, Itasca Consulting Group, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Andrew Bunger, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States
Propagation of a planar hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material (379841)
Brice T Lecampion1, Fatima-Ezzahra Moukhtari2 and Haseeb Zia2,3, (1)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of Civil Engineering, Gaznat chair on Geo-Energy, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, ENAC-IIC-GEL, Lausanne, Switzerland, (3)University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland
Instabilities in advancing hydraulic fracture fronts (Invited) (388503)
Shmuel Rubinstein and Will Steinhardt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Pressure And Fluid Driven Fracture Propagation Using Adaptive Phase Field Models (360521)
Sanghyun Lee, Florida State University, Department of Mathematics, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Mary Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Experimental study of model dikes in gelatin (401405)
Annika Elizabeth Dechert, University of Oregon, Eugene, United States and Stephen J Martel, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States

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