Numerical Simulation of Fractured Reservoirs

Numerical Simulation of Fractured Reservoirs

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Modelling complex fractures and geological structures with unstructured grids

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Modelling complex fractures and geological structures with unstructured grids

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Numerical Simulation of Fractured Reservoirs

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Fractures are the "highways" for flow and
  3. 3 fractured geological formations
  4. 4 The workhorse of applied fractured reservoir simulation: The dual-porosity model
  5. 5 Encapsulating fractures in a simulation model using the dual-porosity approach
  6. 6 The ingredients of the dual-porosity model
  7. 7 A key simulation challenge: Fractured formations do not have a well-defined REV
  8. 8 Calculating the effective permeability of a fracture network
  9. 9 Scale dependency of average permeability for one single fracture network
  10. 10 Scale-dependency of production forecast for a single fracture network
  11. 11 Opportunity for single-phase flow: A night out with a drunken Scotsman...?
  12. 12 Opportunity for single-phase flow: Probabilistic transport such as CTRW
  13. 13 Opportunities for multi-phase flow: Resolve fractured explicitly with unstructured grids
  14. 14 Modelling complex fractures and geological structures with unstructured grids
  15. 15 Honouring geometry of reservoir-scale faults and fractures with unstructured grids
  16. 16 Fast updating of fracture network with hierarchical or embedded fracture modelling
  17. 17 Taking stock: Where are we now... - Dual-porosity model remains the workhorse for applied Simulations of fractured reservoirs
  18. 18 Parameters driving spontaneous imbibition: Wettability, permeability, matrix surface area
  19. 19 Challenge: Non-uniform matrix saturation and under-prediction of transfer at early time
  20. 20 Opportunity: Use ideas from probabilistic solute transport modelling
  21. 21 Multi-rate dual-porosity modelling - simple in theory and practice
  22. 22 Opportunity: Revisit physics of spontaneous imbibition, a non-linear diffusion problem
  23. 23 Example memory functions that can model diffusion in a matrix block
  24. 24 analytical solution for spontaneous imbibition
  25. 25 Opportunity: Uncertainty quantification, clustering, model ranking, robust optimisation
  26. 26 Opportunity: Geomechanics for fractured reservoirs
  27. 27 Niels Bohr: Prediction is very difficult - especially about the future
  28. 28 Thank you!

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