[HTML][HTML] A review of recent developments in CO2 mobility control in enhanced oil recovery

O Massarweh, AS Abushaikha - Petroleum, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery (CO 2-EOR) has gained widespread attention in light
of the declining conventional oil reserves. Moreover, CO 2-EOR contributes to the reduction …

Reactive transport in porous media: a review of recent mathematical efforts in modeling geochemical reactions in petroleum subsurface reservoirs

AS Abd, AS Abushaikha - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The rapid advancements in the computational abilities of numerical simulations have
attracted researchers to work on the area of reactive transport in porous media to improve …

A fully-implicit parallel framework for complex reservoir simulation with mimetic finite difference discretization and operator-based linearization

L Li, A Abushaikha - Computational Geosciences, 2022 - Springer
As the main way to reproduce flow response in subsurface reservoirs, the reservoir
simulation could drastically assist in reducing the uncertainties in the geological …

Flow and transport in three-dimensional discrete fracture matrix models using mimetic finite difference on a conforming multi-dimensional mesh

JD Hyman, MR Sweeney, CW Gable, D Svyatsky… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive workflow to simulate single-phase flow and transport in
fractured porous media using the discrete fracture matrix approach. The workflow has three …

Generalized finite difference method (GFDM) based analysis for subsurface flow problems in anisotropic formation

W Zhan, X Rao, H Zhao, H Zhang, S Hu… - Engineering Analysis with …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper applies the meshless generalized finite difference method (GFDM) to analyze the
subsurface flow problem in anisotropic formations for the first time, and develops the …

[HTML][HTML] An implementation of mimetic finite difference method for fractured reservoirs using a fully implicit approach and discrete fracture models

N Zhang, AS Abushaikha - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a fully implicit mimetic finite difference method (MFD) for general
fractured reservoir simulation. The MFD is a novel numerical discretization scheme that has …

Accurate two-phase flow simulation in faulted reservoirs by combining two-point flux approximation and mimetic finite difference methods

R Dong, FO Alpak, MF Wheeler - SPE Journal, 2023 - onepetro.org
Faulted reservoirs are commonly modeled by corner-point grids (CPGs). Because the two-
point flux approximation (TPFA) method is not consistent on non-K-orthogonal grids, multi …

[HTML][HTML] A novel streamline simulation method for fractured reservoirs with full-tensor permeability

X Rao, X He, H Kwak, A Yousef, H Hoteit - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we develop a novel streamline (SL) simulation method that integrates
seamlessly within the embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM). The novel SL-based …

Permeability of granular media considering the effect of grain composition on tortuosity

M Li, H Chen, X Li, L Liu, J Lin - International Journal of Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to the shape and size polydispersities of grains, transport paths in granular media are
always tortuous. In general, the tortuosity of a transport path affects the fluid flow and mass …

Hybrid mimetic finite-difference and virtual element formulation for coupled poromechanics

A Borio, FP Hamon, N Castelletto, JA White… - Computer Methods in …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present a hybrid mimetic finite-difference and virtual element formulation for coupled
single-phase poromechanics on unstructured meshes. The key advantage of the scheme is …