Abstract: The petroleum industry offers a broad spectrum of problems that falls within the domain of expertise of mechanical engineers. These problems range from the design of well production equipment ...

Abstract: Cubical granite specimens were fractured by borehole pressurization of 1 cP water, 80 cP oil and via a urethane sleeve. Viscous oil tends to generate thick and planar cracks with few branches, ...

Abstract: Alternative formulations of the analytical modeling for contaminant transport in nonisothermal fractured porous media are presented. Transient and steady heat flows are coupled with solute transport, either implicitly as ...