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 …

A review of the XFEM-based approximation of flow in fractured porous media

B Flemisch, A Fumagalli, A Scotti - Advances in Discretization Methods …, 2016 - Springer
This paper presents a review of the available mathematical models and corresponding non-
conforming numerical approximations which describe single-phase fluid flow in a fractured …

[HTML][HTML] DuMux 3–an open-source simulator for solving flow and transport problems in porous media with a focus on model coupling

T Koch, D Gläser, K Weishaupt, S Ackermann… - … & Mathematics with …, 2021 - Elsevier
We present version 3 of the open-source simulator for flow and transport processes in
porous media DuMu x. DuMu x is based on the modular C++ framework Dune (Distributed …

Fully coupled hydro-mechanical modeling of two-phase flow in deformable fractured porous media with discontinuous and continuous Galerkin method

T Ma, L Jiang, W Shen, WZ Cao, C Guo… - Computers and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Discrete fracture and matrix modeling of coupled flow and geomechanics is instrumental for
understanding flow in fractured media for various geoengineering applications such as …

A reduced model for Darcy's problem in networks of fractures∗

L Formaggia, A Fumagalli, A Scotti… - … Modelling and Numerical …, 2014 - cambridge.org
Subsurface flows are influenced by the presence of faults and large fractures which act as
preferential paths or barriers for the flow. In literature models were proposed to handle …

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 …

Discontinuous and continuous Galerkin methods for compressible single-phase and two-phase flow in fractured porous media

T Ma, K Zhang, W Shen, C Guo, H Xu - Advances in Water Resources, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate simulation of flow behaviors in fractured porous media is challenging. We present
a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) approximation and continuous Galerkin (CG) approximation …

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 …

Modeling density-driven flow and solute transport in heterogeneous reservoirs with micro/macro fractures

AR Khoei, SM Mousavi, N Hosseini - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a numerical model is presented to simulate the density-driven flow in
heterogeneous porous media with micro-and macro-fractures. The micro-fractures (like …