Sau-Wai Wong

Shell International Exploration and Production inc.

Practical hydraulic fracture stimulation design models

Josef Shaoul

Fenix Consulting Delft

Truth is stranger than fiction - Fracturing in the real world versus fracture modeling

Anthony Peirce

University of British Columbia

Modeling multi-scale processes in hydraulic fracture propagation using the Implicit Level Set Algorithm (ILSA)

Blaise Bourdin

Louisiana State University

Loss of symmetry of hydraulically stimulated fractures

René de Borst

University of Glasgow

Modelling of fractures in fluid-saturated porous media using extended and isogeometric finite element analysis

Mary Wheeler

University of Texas at Austin

Fracture propagation and flow modeling in porous media

Tobias Backers

Geomecon GmbH

XFEM based fracture propagation simulations - method, examples, challenges

Andrea Lisjak

Geomechanica Inc.

Numerical simulation of fluid-pressure-driven fracturing using a hybrid finite-discrete element approach

Branko Damjanac

Itasca Consulting Group

Application of Distinct Element Methods to simulation of hydraulic fracturing in fractured reservoirs.

Janos Urai
RWTH Aachen University

Numerical simulation of the interaction of fractures with pre-existing healed fractures in rock - DEM-SPH simulation and field examples from the Jebel Akhdar pressure cell, Oman

Andreas Bauer

SINTEF Petroleum Research

A modified discrete model (MDEM) for hydraulic-fracture simulations in low-permeability rock formations, and its application to extended leak-off test simulations