Assessment of the high-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (HT-ATES) potential in naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs with a stochastic discrete fracture …

Y Huang, Z Pang, Y Kong, N Watanabe - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
High-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage (HT-ATES) is a cost-effective and suitable
technology to store large amounts of energy. HT-ATES has been demonstrated to be an …

Stabilized mixed finite elements for deformable porous media with double porosity

J Choo, RI Borja - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Natural geomaterials such as fissured rocks and aggregated soils often exhibit a pore size
distribution with two dominant pore scales, usually termed macropores and micropores …

Modeling and simulation of wormhole formation during acidization of fractured carbonate rocks

P Liu, J Yao, GD Couples, J Ma, Z Huang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Acidizing is a commonly used stimulation treatment for carbonate reservoirs, performed by
injecting acid into the near-wellbore rocks to remedy drilling damage, or to create, by …

An efficient discontinuous Galerkin-mixed finite element model for variable density flow in fractured porous media

A Younes, B Koohbor, M Fahs, H Hoteit - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Modeling variable density flow (VDF) in fractured porous media is computationally
challenging. The challenges are mainly related to:(i) the high permeability contrast between …

An advanced discrete fracture model for variably saturated flow in fractured porous media

B Koohbor, M Fahs, H Hoteit, J Doummar… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate modeling of variably saturated flow (VSF) in fractured porous media with the
discrete fracture-matrix (DFM) model is a computationally challenging problem. The …

Uncertainty analysis for seawater intrusion in fractured coastal aquifers: Effects of fracture location, aperture, density and hydrodynamic parameters

B Koohbor, M Fahs, B Ataie-Ashtiani, B Belfort… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study we use polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) to perform uncertainty analysis for
seawater intrusion (SWI) in fractured coastal aquifers (FCAs) which is simulated using the …

A system dynamics urban water management model for Macau, China

T Wei, I Lou, Z Yang, Y Li - Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
Urban water resources have been facing significant pressure from population growth,
urbanization, and climate change. A system dynamics urban water management model was …

A mixed pressure-velocity formulation to model flow in heterogeneous porous media with physics-informed neural networks

F Lehmann, M Fahs, A Alhubail, H Hoteit - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Current implementations of Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) can
experience convergence problems in simulating fluid flow in porous media with highly …

Laboratory and numerical investigation of saline intrusion in fractured coastal aquifers

G Etsias, GA Hamill, D Campbell, R Straney… - Advances in Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Laboratory scale experiments and numerical modelling were employed in this study to
investigate saltwater intrusion in fractured aquifers. Saline intrusion was initiated in one …

Coupling mixed hybrid and extended finite element methods for the simulation of hydro-mechanical processes in fractured porous media

L Guo, M Fahs, B Koohbor, H Hoteit, A Younes… - Computers and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Simulation of coupled hydro-mechanical (HM) processes in fractured porous media requires
specific numerical schemes to deal with nonlinearity, computational burden, and …