A simulator for production prediction of multistage fractured horizontal well in shale gas reservoir considering complex fracture geometry

R Zhang, L Zhang, H Tang, S Chen, Y Zhao… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2019 - Elsevier
Shale gas is becoming an increasingly supplementary energy source because of its clean-
burning and abundance. Economic gas production in shale requires the techniques of …

A comprehensive model coupling embedded discrete fractures, multiple interacting continua, and geomechanics in shale gas reservoirs with multiscale fractures

K Wang, H Liu, J Luo, K Wu, Z Chen - Energy & Fuels, 2017 - ACS Publications
Shale gas has become one of the primary energy resources during the past few years, and
its impact has been profound in many countries. Hydraulic fracturing treatments are required …

Practical application of machine learning on fast phase equilibrium calculations in compositional reservoir simulations

K Wang, J Luo, Y Wei, K Wu, J Li, Z Chen - Journal of Computational …, 2020 - Elsevier
To accurately describe the fluid phase behaviour in reservoir simulation, Equation-of-State-
based compositional models are usually used. However, phase equilibrium calculations …

Progress of the research on productivity prediction methods for stimulated reservoir volume (SRV)-fractured horizontal wells in unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs

L Ren, Y Su, S Zhan, F Meng - Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2019 - Springer
Further development of stimulated reservoir volume (SRV)-fracturing technologies for
horizontal wells is necessary to address the current situation of decreasing energy …

Artificial neural network assisted two-phase flash calculations in isothermal and thermal compositional simulations

K Wang, J Luo, Y Wei, K Wu, J Li, Z Chen - Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2019 - Elsevier
Flash calculations are widely employed in compositional simulations in the determination of
a number of phases, phase amount and phase composition at each grid block. The …

Production performance simulation of the fractured horizontal well considering reservoir and wellbore coupled flow in shale gas reservoirs

R Zhang, M Chen, Y Zhao, H Xiao, D Zhang… - Energy & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Unmodified original shale gas reservoirs have been demonstrated to have extremely low
permeability, and the long horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques are widely …

Development of a framework for parallel reservoir simulation

HE Barrios Molano… - The International Journal …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The development of a parallel reservoir simulator is a more complex task than nonparallel
simulators. Problems related to parallel implementation such as parallel communication …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient CPR-type preconditioner and its adaptive strategies for large-scale parallel reservoir simulations

K Wang, H Liu, J Luo, Z Chen - Journal of Computational and Applied …, 2018 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of high performance parallel computers and the increasing
demands of large-scale reservoir simulation, the development of effective and fast solvers …

A scalable thermal reservoir simulator for Giant models on parallel computers

H Liu, Z Chen - arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03952, 2018 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces the model, numerical methods, algorithms and parallel
implementation of a thermal reservoir simulator that designed for numerical simulations of …

Performance and scalability analysis for parallel reservoir simulations on three supercomputer architectures

H Liu, P Zhang, K Wang, B Yang, Z Chen - Proceedings of the XSEDE16 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
In this work, we tested the performance and scalability on three supercomputers of different
architectures including SDSC's Comet, SciNet's GPC and IBM's Blue Gene/Q systems …