Preliminary program
09:00-09:45 | Registration and coffee | |
09.45-10.00 | Opening by TU/e's new rector - Frank Baaijens | |
10:00-11:00 | Sau-Wai Wong Shell International Exploration and Production inc. Practical hydraulic fracture stimulation design models | |
11:00-12:00 | Josef Shaoul Fenix Consulting Delft Truth is stranger than fiction - Fracturing in the real world versus fracture modeling | |
12:00-13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30-14:30 | Anthony Peirce University of British Columbia Modeling multi-scale processes in hydraulic fracture propagation using the Implicit Level Set Algorithm (ILSA) | |
14:30-15:30 | Blaise Bourdin Louisiana State University Loss of symmetry of hydraulically stimulated fractures | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00-17:00 | René de Borst University of Glasgow Modelling of fractures in fluid-saturated porous media using extended and isogeometric finite element analysis | |
17:00-18:00 | Mary Wheeler University of Texas at Austin Fracture propagation and flow modeling in porous media |
8:30-9:30 | Tobias Backers Geomecon GmbH XFEM based fracture propagation simulations - method, examples, challenges | |
9:30-10:30 | Andrea Lisjak Geomechanica Inc. Numerical simulation of fluid-pressure-driven fracturing using a hybrid finite-discrete element approach | |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00-12:00 | Branko Damjanac Itasca Consulting Group Application of Distinct Element Methods to simulation of hydraulic fracturing in fractured reservoirs. | |
12:00-13:00 | Janos Urai 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 | |
13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00-15:00 | 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 | |
15:00-15:15 | Closure |