...Chunting Liu; Mingzhong Li; Tiankui Guo; Guodong Zhang The proppant distribution significantly affects the conductivity of fracture networks. However, the law of proppant transport in fracture networks is still unclear, and the influence of fracture scale on the proppant distribution has not been...

... the proppant transport and its placement process in T-shaped fracture network through simulations. The proppant transport is studied numerically by coupling a computational fluid dynamic model for the base shear-thinning fluid and the discrete element methods for proppant particles. A scaling analysis has been...