Postdoctoral Fellowship studying mechanics of hydraulic fracturing for stimulation of hot fractured rock geothermal reservoirs

CSIRO Petroleum in Melbourne, Australia, welcomes applications to a Postdoctoral Fellowship
in hydraulic fracture stimulation mechanics. The successful candidate
will have a background in applied mechanics and numerical methods with
an interest in verifying numerical calculations by experiment.  The
research results will be applied to stimulation of hot fractured rock
geothermal reservoirs.

For more details and to apply see https://recruitment.csiro.au/asp/Job_Details.asp?RefNo=2008%2F1211

CSIRO Petroleum works closely with the resources and energy sectors
to provide research and technology based industrial solutions to
address the rapidly evolving needs of these sectors. Activities include
projects in geoscience, geomechanics, gas to liquids, and offshore
facilities.

You will be part of an effort to develop a better understanding of
hydraulic fracture growth in naturally fractured rock. Fracture growth
under opening and shearing modes will be studied by application of
commercial and in-house advanced numerical models, with lab
verification where possible and practical.

Key project components will include:

• Apply an existing 2D fully coupled hydraulic fracture model to
  study fracture growth in naturally fractured rock to develop predictive
  models for extent of opening and shearing mode fracture growth.
• Carry out scaled laboratory experiments to characterise fracture growth through naturally fractured rock.