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8685
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Overview

Andrew P. Bunger is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Engineering, encompassing 104 publications.

The subfields of Bunger's work include:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Geophysics
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

Their research topics cover a range of specialized areas such as:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Tunneling and Rock Mechanics
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Concrete and Cement Materials Research

Bunger has contributed to several peer-reviewed articles, including these recent publications:

  • "Experimental quantification of the effect of oil based drilling fluid contamination on properties of wellbore cement," 2020, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • "Convergence of micro-geochemistry and micro-geomechanics towards understanding proppant shale rock interaction: A Caney shale case study in southern Oklahoma, USA," 2021, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • "Graphene nanoplatelets reinforced cement as a solution to leaky wellbores reinforcing weak points in hydrated Portland cement with graphene nanoparticles improves mechanical and chemical durability of wellbore cements," 2022, Cement and Concrete Composites
  • "Time-Dependent Hydraulic Fracture Initiation," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • "Observations of breakage for transversely isotropic shale using acoustic emission and X-ray computed tomography: Effect of bedding orientation, pre-existing weaknesses, and pore water," 2021, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bunger include:

  • Guanyi Lu
  • Yunxing Lu
  • Mileva Radonjic
  • Dustin Crandall
  • Yao Huang

Key publication venues where Bunger has a notable presence are:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
  • D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Best Publications

  • Numerical methods for hydraulic fracture propagation: a review of recent trends

    Brice Lecampion;Andrew Bunger;Xi Zhang

  • A review of mechanical models of dike propagation: Schools of thought, results and future directions

    Eleonora Rivalta;Eleonora Rivalta;Benoit Taisne;Andrew P Bunger;Richard F Katz

  • Toughness-dominated Hydraulic Fracture with Leak-off

    Andrew P. Bunger;Emmanuel M Detournay;Dmitry I. Garagash

  • COHESIVE ZONE FINITE ELEMENT-BASED MODELING OF HYDRAULIC FRACTURES

    Zuorong Chen;A.P. Bunger;Xi Zhang;Robert G. Jeffrey

  • Parameters Affecting the Interaction Among Closely Spaced Hydraulic Fractures

    Andrew P. Bunger;Xi Zhang;Robert G. Jeffrey

  • Interference Fracturing: Nonuniform Distributions of Perforation Clusters That Promote Simultaneous Growth of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures

    Anthony Peirce;Andrew Bunger

  • Initiation and growth of a hydraulic fracture from a circular wellbore

    X. Zhang;R.G. Jeffrey;A.P. Bunger;M. Thiercelin

  • Measuring Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Naturally Fractured Rock

    Robert G. Jeffrey;Andrew Bunger;Brice LeCampion;Xi Zhang

  • Modeling the growth of laccoliths and large mafic sills: Role of magma body forces

    Andrew Bunger;Alexander Cruden;Alexander Cruden

  • Experimental validation of the tip asymptotics for a fluid-driven crack

    Andrew P. Bunger;Emmanuel M Detournay

  • Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing

    Andrew P. Bunger;John McLennan;Rob Jeffrey

  • Experiments versus theory for the initiation and propagation of radial hydraulic fractures in low permeability materials

    Brice Lecampion;Jean Desroches;Robert G. Jeffrey;Andrew P. Bunger

  • A Detailed Comparison of Experimental and Numerical Data on Hydraulic Fracture Height Growth Through Stress Contrasts

    Robert G. Jeffrey;Andrew Bunger

  • Constraints on Simultaneous Growth of Hydraulic Fractures from Multiple Perforation Clusters in Horizontal Wells

    Andrew Bunger;Robert G. Jeffrey;Xi Zhang

  • Comparison between laboratory experiments and coupled simulations of saucer-shaped hydraulic fractures in homogeneous brittle-elastic solids

    Andrew P. Bunger;Elizaveta Gordeliy;Elizaveta Gordeliy;Emmanuel Detournay;Emmanuel Detournay

  • Interface debonding driven by fluid injection in a cased and cemented wellbore: Modeling and experiments

    Brice Lecampion;Andrew Bunger;Andrew Bunger;James Kear;Daniel Quesada

  • Experimental Investigation of the Interaction Among Closely Spaced Hydraulic Fractures

    A.P. Bunger;R.G. Jeffrey;J. Kear;X. Zhang

  • Early-Time Solution for a Radial Hydraulic Fracture

    Andrew P. Bunger;Andrew P. Bunger;Emmanuel M Detournay;Emmanuel M Detournay

  • Impact of Partially Cemented and Non-persistent Natural Fractures on Hydraulic Fracture Propagation

    Wei Fu;Brandon C. Ames;Andrew P. Bunger;Alexei A. Savitski

  • Analysis of the power input needed to propagate multiple hydraulic fractures

    A.P. Bunger

  • Parameters Effecting the Interaction among Closely Spaced Hydraulic Fractures

    Andrew Bunger;Xi Zhang;Robert G. Jeffrey

  • A simplified model for heat extraction by circulating fluid through a closed-loop multiple-fracture enhanced geothermal system

    Bisheng Wu;Xi Zhang;Robert G. Jeffrey;Andrew P. Bunger

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Jeffrey
Robert G. Jeffrey University of Wollongong
Emmanuel M Detournay
Emmanuel M Detournay University of Minnesota
Alexander R. Cruden
Alexander R. Cruden Monash University
Anthony Peirce
Anthony Peirce University of British Columbia
Arcady Dyskin
Arcady Dyskin University of Western Australia
Eleonora Rivalta
Eleonora Rivalta Universität Hamburg
Kevin P. Chen
Kevin P. Chen University of Pittsburgh
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb University of New South Wales
Mian Chen
Mian Chen China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Ming-Jun Li
Ming-Jun Li Corning (United States)

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