SMS scnews item created by Eduardo Altmann at Wed 7 Feb 2018 1639
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 7 Mar 2018
Calendar1: 21 Feb 2018 0200-0300
CalLoc1: AGR Carslaw 829
CalTitle1: How to frack into and out of trouble
Auth: ega@dora.maths.usyd.edu.au

Applied Maths Seminar

How to frack into and out of trouble

Huppert

Prof. Herbert Huppert (University of Cambridge)
Title: How to frack into and out of trouble.
Abstract: After a short introduction to the mechanism and politics of fracking, the talk will concentrate on the fluid mechanics and elastodynamics of driving fluid into cracks and the quite different response when the pressure is released and the fluid flows back out. Development of the governing equations will be presented along with their numerical solution and asymptotic analysis in certain useful limits. Videos of laboratory experiments will be shown and the results compared with the theoretical predictions.

For more information about the Applied Maths seminars see http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SemConf/Applied.html