Geomechanics in shale gas/oil development

Computational Geomechanics

GeoMFree3D: An Under-Development Meshfree Software Package for Geomechanics

This paper briefly reports the GeoMFree , a meshfree / meshless software package designed for analyzing the problems of large deformations and crack propagations of rock and soil masses in geotechnics. The GeoMFree is developed based on the meshfree RPIM, and accelerated by exploiting the parallel computing on multi-core CPU and many-core GPU. The GeoMFree is currently being under intensive dev...

Ensor Visualizations in Omputational Geomechanics

Cavity Expansion Methods in Geomechanics

Shale gas development: a smart regulation framework.

Advances in directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing have sparked a natural gas boom from shale formations in the United States. Regulators face a rapidly changing industry comprised of hundreds of players, operating tens of thousands of wells across 30 states. They are often challenged to respond by budget cuts, a brain drain to industry, regulations designed for conventional gas developm...