GPM Research Institute develops and implements numerical simulations of natural and artificial geological processes: petroleum reservoir geomechanics (e.g., hydraulic fracturing), geotechnical analysis of foundations, groundwater flow in fractured and unfractured systems, structural outcome of geological processes, and others.
GPM Research Institute conducts simulations using fracture-based continuum modeling (FBCM), an innovative modeling technology developed under a contributing organization (GNO Modeling Research, LLC): to model fractures and fracturing explicitly in continuum analysis.
FBCM models potential mechanical damage of geologic materials by modeling explicitly the initiation and propagation of tensile and shear fractures, which are the natural mechanisms of mechanical damage in geologic media.
Reservoir Geomechanics
We provide 3D numerical simulations of geomechanical behavior, reservoir or wellbore scale, using FBCM implemented as CanFrac for mechanical modeling and CanFracEnv for hydrological
Geotechnical Analysis of Foundations
We provide full-scale load test of foundations, by numerical simulation using FBCM
Groundwater Flow
We provide 3D numerical simulations for hydrogeological characterization and evaluation of groundwater flow in fractured and unfractured geologic media, using FBCM
Structural Geology
We provide 3D numerical simulations of coupled geomechanical and hydrological behavior to predict the structural geologic effects of specified geological processes on a specified initial state, using FBCM
Geological processes modeling (GPM) research Institute 