Baiqian Yu

Unraveling the Scale Effect on Fracture Plugging: A Quantitative Study from Lab-Scale Slots to Field-Scale Fractures via Hydrodynamic Analysis

Abstract Conventional core-scale laboratory fracture-plugging tests may overestimate the ability of granular lost circulation materials (LCMs) to form a complete plugging zone under field-scale conditions. This discrepancy arises because the effects of increasing fracture length...