Brice Lecampion
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Fields of expertise
Mechanics of porous media,
Hydraulic fracturing,
Dense suspensions flow,
Geomechanics,
Geo-energy,
Rock mechanics
Hydraulic fracturing,
Dense suspensions flow,
Geomechanics,
Geo-energy,
Rock mechanics
Biography
I am currently leading the Geo-Energy Lab - Gaznat Chair on GeoEnergy at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Prior to joining EPFL, I have worked for Schlumberger in research and development from 2006 until May 2015 - serving in a variety of roles ranging from project manager to principal scientist in both Europe and the United States. I received my PhD in mechanics from Ecole Polytechnique, France in 2002 and worked as a research scientist in the hydraulic fracturing research group of CSIRO division of Petroleum resources (Melbourne, Australia) from 2003 to 2006.My current research aims at understanding the interplay between the growth of localized discontinuities in the Earth upper crust (in the form of fractures and faults) and fluid flow in geomaterials with applications in the field of environmental, civil engineering, seismology and tectonophysics. I am thus working at the intersection between continuum mechanics (solid and fluid dynamics) and geophysics, solving problems related to the energy transition (Geothermal Energy, CO2 storage, ...).
Education
PhD
Mechanics
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
2002
Ingénieur
Géophysique-Géotechnique
UPMC, Paris
1999
Publications
Infoscience publications
2024
Journal Articles
Rock Anisotropy Promotes Hydraulic Fracture Containment at Depth
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2024-04-11. DOI : 10.1029/2023JB028011.Posters
3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability
Poroelasticity Minisimposium, Geopolis, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-5 March 2024.Talks
3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability
MEGA Seminar , EPFL, Switzerland, 2024-03-21.2023
Journal Articles
Fluid-driven slow slip and earthquake nucleation on a slip-weakening circular fault
Journal Of The Mechanics And Physics Of Solids. 2023-12-07. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105506.Post-injection aseismic slip as a mechanism for the delayed triggering of seismicity
Proceedings Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences. 2023-05-31. DOI : 10.1098/rspa.2022.0810.Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2023. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2023.711.Conference Papers
Arrest Mechanisms of Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures
2023-06-25. 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 25-28, 2023. p. ARMA-2023-0711. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2023-0711.Automatic and high-precision microseismic monitoring of progressive failure prior, during, and after tunnel excavation
2023-09-28. ACOUSTIC EMISSION WORKING GROUP, Princeton, NJ, USA, September 26-28, 2023.Automatic and high-precision acoustic emission-based structural health monitoring of concrete structures
2023-09-14. 14th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, CA, September 12-14, 2023. DOI : 10.12783/shm2023/36857.Elongated hydraulic fracture emerging from layers of alternating fracture toughness
2023. 57th US Rock Mechanics Geomechanics Symposium , Atlanta, USA, June 25-28, 2023.Shearing and opening of a pre-existing discontinuity in response to fluid injection
2023-06-26. 57th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Atlanta, GA, USA, June 25-28, 2023.Theses
Three-dimensional fluid-driven frictional ruptures: theory and applications
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10303.Propagation of planar three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10388.Three-dimensional hydraulic fracture propagation in homogeneous and heterogeneous media
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10105.Posters
The effect of in-situ linear stress gradient on the frictional shear rupture growth in 2D
EGU 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24, 2023.Transition from Vertical to Lateral Diking at the Neutral Buoyancy Line
European Geosciences Union, Annual Meeting 2023 (EGU2023), Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2023.Talks
Birth and ascent of buoyant hydraulic fractures
MCE Seminar, Pasadena, California, USA, June 21, 2023.Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures: How they Emerge, Grow, and get Arrested
ARMA HFC 2023 Series, Online, November 16, 2023.Ascent and movement of buoyant fluids in the lithosphere
MEGA Seminar Series, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 2023-10-26.Gravitational effects on the emergence,propagation, and arrest of hydraulic fractures
Geoseminar Series EPFL, 2023-2024, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland, 2023-11-21.Magmatic Intrusions From a Hydraulic Fracture Modeling Perspective
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2023.A fully-coupled highly-parallelized geomechanical simulator for assessing induced seismicity
SIAM GS 23, Bergen, Norway, June 19-22, 2023.3D Geomechanical Modelling of a Potential CO2 Storage Site with focus on Fault Stability
AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, December 11-15.Can a bi-lateral stress jump really arrest the height growth of a hydraulic fracture?
The Seventh International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2023.Extraction of fluids to mitigate the seismic risk associated with post-injection aseismic slip
EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023.Student Projects
Fractures Thermal Energy Storage (FTES)
2023-06-23Numerical modeling of ground movement above underground salt mines in Tuzla city, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2023-08-01Datasets
Data and Workflow to: Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: finite volume release (Möri and Lecampion, (2023))
2023-03-31.2022
Journal Articles
Three-dimensional buoyant hydraulic fractures: constant release from a point source
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2022-10-18. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2022.800.Laboratory investigation of hydraulic fracture growth in Zimbabwe gabbro
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 2022-10-25. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB025678.The influence of roughness on experimental fault mechanical behaviour and associated microseismicity
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2022-08-07. DOI : 10.1029/2022JB025113.Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104754.Conference Papers
Experimental Investigation of Hydraulic Fracture Closure in a Porous Sandstone
2022-11-07. International Geomechanics Symposium, Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 5-10, 2022. DOI : 10.56952/IGS-2022-175.Experimental investigation of hydraulic fracture growth in an anisotropic rock with pre-existing discontinuities under different propagation regimes
2022. 56th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA , June 26–29, 2022. DOI : 10.56952/ARMA-2022-0239.Posters
Numerical Scheme for the Large-scale Geomechanical Simulations of CO2-storage
Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland, Novembre 18-20, 2022.Talks
Fault roughness’s influence on experimental fault mechanical behavior
AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA, December 12-16, 2022.The effect of experimental fault roughness on bare fault surfaces and associated microseismicity
Friction and Wear Across Scales 2022, Ascona, Switzerland, August 15 - 18, 2022.Three-dimensional fluid-driven stable frictional ruptures
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July.Spatio-temporal patterns of fluid-driven aseismic slip transients: implications to seismic swarms
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May, 2022.When, and for how long, two tough layers can contain the propagation of a fracture driven by the injection of a viscous fluid
8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2022), Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.Hydraulic fracturing experiments in quasi- brittle rocks
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July 2022.Numerical simulations of mixed shear and opening modes fluid driven fracture propagation on pre-existing discontinuities
The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS Congress 2022,, Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.The birth and death of buoyant hydraulic fractures
Swiss Mech Seminar Series, Online organized by ETH Zürich, April 14, 2022.The Transient Phase of Planar, Three-Dimensional Buoyant Hydraulic Fractures Emerging from a Point Source
The 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2022), Oslo, 5 - 9 June.Steadily Moving Semi-Infinite Hydraulic Fracture in a Poroelastic Media
11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Irland, 4 - 8 July 2022.Teaching Resources
Elastodynamics - notes for earthquake source physics
2022-07-18.Media
3D Buoyancy-Driven Propagation of Hydraulic Fractures and their Applications to Magmatic Plumbing Systems
2022-03-16.2021
Journal Articles
A plane‐strain hydraulic fracture driven by a shear‐thinning Carreau fluid
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2021-04-02. DOI : 10.1002/nag.3216.Arrest of a radial hydraulic fracture upon shut-in of the injection
International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2021-03-06. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2021.02.022.Propagation of a plane-strain hydraulic fracture accounting for a rough cohesive zone
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2021-01-24. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104322.Conference Papers
Combining active and passive acoustic methods to image hydraulic fracture growth in laboratory experiments
2021-09-22. Mechanics and Rock Engineering from Theory to Practice - the 2021 ISRM International Symposium (EUROCK 2021), Torino, Italy, September, 20-24, 2021. p. 012088. DOI : 10.1088/1755-1315/833/1/012088.Aseismic slip propagation in fractured rock masses driven by pore-fluid diffusion
2021-08-01. 55th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 20-23, 2021.Remembering François H. Cornet’s contribution to the geomechanics and geophysics communities
2021-08-31. 55th US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 18-25, 2021.Theses
Hydraulic fracture growth in quasi-brittle materials
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8360.Posters
Limiting Regimes of a Three-Dimensional Buoyant Hydraulic Fracture Emerging from a Point Source
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, LA, USA, 13 - 17 December 2021.A Scaling Relation Between the Moment Release due to Aseismic Motion and the Injected Volume of Fluid
AGU Fall Meeting 2021, New Orleans, USA, December 13-17, 2021.Talks
The breakthrough time of a hydraulic fracture contained between two tough layers
19th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Geneva 2021, [Online], 19-20 November 2021.Interaction and coalescence of fluid-driven fractures: numerical predictions versus experiments
APS physics March Meeting 2021, [Online], March 15-19, 2021.Three-dimensional aseismic ruptures driven by fluid injection
EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, April 19-30, 2021.Improved fracture front reconstruction in planar 3D fluid driven fractures simulation
14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XIV) and 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2020) (Eccomas Congress 2020 & 14th WCCM), Virtual Congress, January 11-15, 2021.Scaling as a key component of the modelling of fluid driven fractures
2nd International conference on coupled processes in fractured geological media: observations, modeling and applications - CouFrac 2020, Seoul, Korea, 11-13 November 2020.Simulations of hydraulic fracture initiation, growth and closure driven by a viscoplastic mud
14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, online, 11-15 January 2021.Student Projects
Physics Informed Neural Networks for Surrogate Modelling and Inverse Problems in Geotechnics
2021-07-13Revisiting the Pohang Induced Earthquake
2021-07-13Rock Heterogeneity and Fractures
2021-07-132020
Journal Articles
Reply to comments on "Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth" (Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech., 2019, 43 (6), 1300-1315)" by Prof. Linkov
International Journal For Numerical And Analytical Methods In Geomechanics. 2020-09-11. DOI : 10.1002/nag.3141.A fast boundary element based solver for localized inelastic deformations
International Journal For Numerical Methods In Engineering. 2020-08-28. DOI : 10.1002/nme.6520.Time-lapse reconstruction of the fracture front from diffracted waves arrivals in laboratory hydraulic fracture experiments
Geophysical Journal International. 2020-06-23. DOI : 10.1093/gji/ggaa310.PyFrac: A planar 3D hydraulic fracture simulator
Computer Physics Communications. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107368.Planar hydraulic fracture growth perpendicular to the isotropy plane in a transversely isotropic material
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 2020-01-17. DOI : 10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103878.Modeling of Simultaneous Propagation of Multiple Blade‑Like Hydraulic Fractures from a Horizontal Well
Rock Mechanics Rock Engineering. 2020. DOI : 10.1007/s00603-019-02002-4.Theses
Hydraulic stimulation of pre-existing discontinuities in tight rocks
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7654.Propagation of fluid driven fractures in transversely isotropic material
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7470.Posters
Fully-coupled 3D modelling of magmatic dike Propagation – finite pulse release from a point source
EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4 - 8 May 2020.Talks
Transition from a radial to a 3D buoyancy-driven hydraulic fracture
18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020 (SGM 2020), Zürich, Switzerland, 6 - 7 September 2020.Laboratory studies of hydraulic fracture growth in quasi-brittle rocks with different grain sizes
18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, 7 November 2020.Student Projects
In-situ stress and rock characterisation via dry reopening test
2020-07-14Numerical back-analysis & future risk assessment of the Hirschigraben landslide(s)
2020-01-242019
Journal Articles
Slickwater hydraulic fracture propagation: near-tip and radial geometry solutions
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2019-10-10. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2019.716.Propagation of a fluid-driven fracture with fracture length dependent apparent toughness
Engineering Fracture Mechanics. 2019-08-21. DOI : 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2019.106616.Effect of dilatancy on the transition from aseismic to seismic slip due to fluid injection in a fault
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. 2019-05-25. DOI : 10.1029/2018JB016636.Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2019. DOI : 10.1002/nag.2898.Conference Papers
Growth of a radial hydraulic fracture accounting for the viscous fluid flow in a rough cohesive zone
2019. 2019 ARMA-CUPB Geothermal International Conference, Beijing, China, August 5-8, 2019.Propagation of a planar hydraulic fracture perpendicular to the isotropy plane of a transversely isotropic material
2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.Effects of spatial variation of cluster entry friction on hydraulic fracture propagation in multistage fracturing
2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, New-York, USA, June, 23-26, 2019.Propagation of a plane-strain hydraulic fracture accounting for the presence of a cohesive zone and a fluid lag
2019-06-23. 53rd US Rock Mechanics/ Geomechanics Symposium, New York City, June, 23-26, 2019.Reports
STIMDESIGN: Hydraulic stimulation design for deep geothermal reservoirs - a numerical approach
2019-11-01Posters
Fluid injection driven, a-seismic fracture growth with remote nucleation on heterogeneous fault
SCCER-SoE Annual Conference 2019, EPFL,Lausanne, Switzerland, 3 - 4 September 2019.A-seismic fracture growth driven by fluid injection and remote nucleation of dynamic rupture in a weaker part of the fault
Third Schatzalp Workshop on Induced Seismicity, Davos, Switzerland, 5 - 8 March, 2019.Talks
Explicit versus implicit front advancing schemes for the simulation of hydraulic fracture growth.
CFRAC 2019: VI International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures, Braunschweig, Germany, 12-14 June 2019.2018
Journal Articles
A lined hole in a viscoelastic rock under biaxial far-field stress
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijrmms.2018.02.019.Impact of the anisotropy of fracture toughness on the propagation of planar 3D hydraulic fracture
International Journal of Fracture. 2018-03-16. DOI : 10.1007/s10704-018-0278-7.A semi-infinite hydraulic fracture driven by a shear-thinning fluid
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2018. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2017.900.Numerical methods for hydraulic fracture propagation: a review of recent trends
Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jngse.2017.10.012.Conference Papers
Accounting for near-wellbore fracture behavior to unlock the potential of unconventional gas wells
2018-06-29. 27th World Gas Conference, Washington, DC, USA, June 25-29.Talks
Hydraulic fracture growth & turbulent flow
Departmental seminar, Skolkovo Institute of Technology, Moscow.Hydraulic fracture growth in transversely isotropic rocks
Warren Lecture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.Slickwater is not water
Hydraulic Fracturing: Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment workshop 18w5085 - Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada, June 3-8.Propagation of a Radial Fluid-driven Fracture in Nonlinear Solid --around the tip of a fluid-driven fracture: process zone vs deviated fluid flow
International Summer School on Mechanics and Physics of Stretchable Objects (MEPHiSTO 2018), Cargese, Corsica, France, 7-17 August 2018 .Numerical simulation of hydraulic fracture growth: advances & remaining challenges
10th European Sold Mechanics Conference, Bologna, Italy, July 2-6, 2018.The Importance of coupling wellbore hydraulic & simultaneous fractures propagation in multistage design
2018 ARMA-DGS Workshop: the Role of Geomechanics in Stimulations, Bahrain, April 3-5, 2018.2017
Journal Articles
The Role of Geological Barriers in Achieving Robust Well Integrity
Energy Procedia. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1673.Experiments versus theory for the initiation and propagation of radial hydraulic fractures in low permeability materials
Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/2016JB013183.Propagation of a height contained hydraulic fracture in turbulent flow regimes
International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2016.12.029.Book Chapters
Four Critical Issues for Su
Research
Hydraulic fracturing
- Initiation of hydraulic fracture (size-effects, fluid effects etc.)- Initiation and simultaneous propagation of multiple hydraulic fractures
- Validation and codes benchmarking
Inverse Problems in geomechanics
- Monitoring of fracture(s) growth via acoustic methods- Reconstruction of 3D in-situ stress field from quantitative and qualitative data
- Use of InSAR data for reservoir monitoring
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Civil Engineering