In Irazu version 6.1, a new elastic FEM material model has been added to grant the ability to explicitly define unfracturable domains within an FDEM model. Ultimately, this leads to significantly reduced simulation run times without compromising the accuracy of the result. In addition, we would like to provide a sneak peek of new elasto-plastic … Read more
Irazu version 6.1 has launched and there are several new and exciting features that have been implemented including: Elevation-varying water table (Irazu 2D) A new hydraulic boundary condition has been added to Irazu 2D Hydro, granting the capability to impose elevation-varying hydrostatic fluid pressures to a model. In addition, the water table can be temporally … Read more
We are excited to announce the launch of our latest software offering: Irazu Creator. Say goodbye to endless hours spent on model preparation and mesh generation. With Irazu Creator, advanced meshing and pre-processing capabilities streamline your CAD to analysis process for quality solutions. Our team has worked tirelessly to create a powerful and intuitive software package that simplifies your workflow, … Read more
During hydraulic fracturing treatments from horizontal wells, proppant slurries are pumped into the induced fractures to prevent crack closure upon de-pressurization, thus enhancing hydrocarbon recovery. Transport and emplacement of proppant particles may have a strong influence on the rock mass stress re-distribution and hydraulic conductivity of the induced fracture network. Therefore, prediction of proppant injection … Read more
Irazu makes use of state-of-the-art high performance computing techniques to speed-up computations. In particular, we use GPU (graphics processing unit) computing on consumer-grade AMD graphics cards. To demonstrate the improvement in computation speed, five uniaxial compression strength (UCS) tests with an increasing number of finite elements were simulated using Irazu and the sequential CPU code … Read more