Development and application of three-dimensional discrete fracture network modeling approach for fluid flow in fractured rock masses

N Huang, R Liu, Y Jiang, Y Cheng - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rock fractures are crucial conduits for fluid flow in fractured rock masses. Three-dimensional
(3D) discrete fracture network (DFN) modeling approach, which can explicitly characterize …

A critical review on coupled geomechanics and fluid flow in naturally fractured reservoirs

HK Hawez, R Sanaee, NH Faisal - Journal of natural gas science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Naturally fractured reservoirs have been a source of challenging issues with regard to field
development, well stability, drilling, and enhanced oil recovery, as a connected fracture …

Development of an efficient embedded discrete fracture model for 3D compositional reservoir simulation in fractured reservoirs

A Moinfar, A Varavei, K Sepehrnoori, RT Johns - SPE Journal, 2014 - onepetro.org
Many naturally fractured reservoirs around the world have depleted significantly, and
improved-oil-recovery (IOR) processes are necessary for further development. Hence, the …

A new fractal approach for describing induced-fracture porosity/permeability/compressibility in stimulated unconventional reservoirs

G Sheng, Y Su, W Wang - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) with complex induced-fracture governs dominant
flow rates in unconventional reservoirs. The induced-fracture spacing and aperture greatly …

Discrete fracture model for coupled flow and geomechanics

TT Garipov, M Karimi-Fard, HA Tchelepi - Computational Geosciences, 2016 - Springer
We present a fully implicit formulation of coupled flow and geomechanics for fractured three-
dimensional subsurface formations. The Reservoir Characterization Model (RCM) consists …

Hybrid coupled discrete-fracture/matrix and multicontinuum models for unconventional-reservoir simulation

J Jiang, RM Younis - SPE Journal, 2016 - onepetro.org
Unconventional reservoirs are the focus of considerable attention as a primary energy
source. Numerical simulation is a core kernel of reservoir-engineering work flows for …

An improved projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM) for multiphase flow in fractured reservoirs

J Jiang, RM Younis - Advances in water resources, 2017 - Elsevier
The discrete fracture-matrix (DFM) approaches based on conforming grids become popular
for modeling fractured reservoirs in the last decade. However, the application of conforming …

A general gridding, discretization, and coarsening methodology for modeling flow in porous formations with discrete geological features

M Karimi-Fard, LJ Durlofsky - Advances in water resources, 2016 - Elsevier
A comprehensive framework for modeling flow in porous media containing thin, discrete
features, which could be high-permeability fractures or low-permeability deformation bands …

An efficient embedded discrete fracture model based on mimetic finite difference method

X Yan, Z Huang, J Yao, Y Li, D Fan - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Various numerical models exist for numerical simulation of fluid flow in fractured porous
media, such as dual-porosity model, discrete fracture model and equivalent continuum …

Algebraic multiscale method for flow in heterogeneous porous media with embedded discrete fractures (F-AMS)

M Ţene, MS Al Kobaisi, H Hajibeygi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper introduces an Algebraic MultiScale method for simulation of flow in
heterogeneous porous media with embedded discrete Fractures (F-AMS). First, multiscale …