An Open-Source Code for Fluid Flow Simulations in Unconventional Fractured Reservoirs

Efficient simulation of hydraulic fractured wells in unconventional reservoirs

Reservoir simulators remain essential tools for improved reservoir management in order to optimize hydraulic fracturing design in unconventional low permeability reservoirs. However, the commonly-used simulator requires too much computational efforts for the description of local phenomena in the vicinity of the hydraulic fractures, and is practically infeasible for field applications, due to la...

OpenLB: towards an efficient parallel open source library for lattice Boltzmann fluid flow simulations

An Investigation of Radial Tracer Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

This study presents a general solution for the radial flow of tracers in naturally fractured reservoirs. Continuous and finite step injection of chemical and radioactive tracers are considered. The reservoir is treated as being composed of two regions: a mobile region where longitudinal dispersion and convection take place and a stagnant region where only diffusion and adsorption are a1 1 owed....

PorePy: An Open-Source Simulation Tool for Flow and Transport in Deformable Fractured Rocks

Fractures are ubiquitous in the subsurface and strongly affect flow and deformation. The physical shape of the fractures, they are long and thin objects, puts strong limitations on how the effect of this dynamics can be incorporated into standard reservoir simulation tools. This paper reports the development of an open-source software framework, termed PorePy, which is aimed at simulation of fl...

capillary continuity in fractured oil reservoirs

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