Bo ZhangMonash University (Australia) · Department of Civil Engineering, Clayton
Bo Zhang
PhD student
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Introduction
Multi-phase flow; Particle flow; non-Newtonian flow; Proppant transport in fractures; Foam based hydrofracking; Reservoir modelling; THMC modelling; EGS; COMSOL Multiphysics; MATLAB; OpenFoam; LIGGGHTS; CFDEMcoupling
Education
September 2016 - June 2019
September 2012 - July 2016
Publications
Publications (5)
Micro-proppants with stronger portability have more potential to migrate to the massive micro-sized secondary fractures (SFs) or natural fractures activated by supercritical CO2 (Sc-CO2) fracturing in shale gas reservoirs. However, the transportation behaviour of micro-proppants in massive SFs has been scarcely studied to date. In this study, we re...
By constructing the permeability model to distinguish the fracture zone, plastic zone, and elastic zone around the hydraulic fracturing borehole, we study the influence of some important parameters on the stress distribution around the borehole and the permeability of the coal rock. The research results show that the greater the ground stress, the...
Proppant distribution in rough rock fractures is a key factor in the evaluation of the effectiveness of a hydraulic fracturing operation. This paper focuses on the study of how fracture roughness influences proppant transport and placement based on improved coupled computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM). Laboratory-scale syn...
Coal contains a large number of fractures, whose characteristics are difficult to describe in detail, while their spatial distribution patterns may follow some macroscopic statistical laws. In this paper, several fracture geometric parameters (FGPs) were used to describe a fracture, and the coal seam was represented by a two-dimensional stochastic...
Questions
Questions (3)
In the general two-dimensional problem, we assume that the thickness of the material is a unit length, and that any physical and mechanical properties of the material do not change in the direction of thickness. While, what about quasi two dimensional problems?Is the material supposed to be thinner or is it just two layers up and down in the direction of thickness need to be considered?
What software can be used to simulate the foam flow in porous medium with describing the coarsensing and coalescence of lamella?
Hi all,
As is known that the reservoir condition of a EGS is quite special with high temperature and high in-situ stress. Thus, the hydraulic fracturing operation for EGS reservoir should also be quite different with that for oil/gas recovery. Can you make some detailed comparisons between the two operation processes and the requirments of the stimulation results?
Thanks,
Bo
