... sand control upstream oil & gas oil sand complex reservoir engineering gravel size sand/solids control screen selection simulation bitumen gravel particle efficiency ppg petroleum engineer cfd-dem coupling method fluid flow protective shroud diameter design principle...

... modeling & simulation heterogeneity reservoir characterization upstream oil & gas tensile nemeth pressurization fluid flow reservoir geomechanics fluid dynamics porosity effective stress host rock collapse structure flow in porous media injection layer assumption breccia...

... ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the simulation of acoustic signatures created by fluid flow through a porous material with the goal of learning physical flow characteristics from flow-generated acoustic signatures. A fluid-solid interaction solver (FSIS), as a part of a combined finite...

... ABSTRACT: In this study, we present the results of numerical simulations of washout behavior of granular geomaterials. The washout of soil grains, which is driven by a fluid flow, is considered to be one of the most significant reasons of ground subsidence particularly in urban areas...

... fluid flow plastic zone blowout 1. INTRODUCTION AND MODEL FORMULATION Transient solids production can occur during start-up of the well as well as a result of blowouts. The transient solids production at the production stage of horizontal well has been considered in the past numerically (Nouri et...

... ABSTRACT: The efficiency of fluid flow in porous media is critical to many energy and environmentally relevant operations, including oil and gas production, geothermal energy, gas-hydrate-bearing sediment, and geologic carbon sequestration. The fluid flow in porous media under a high...

... representation in an in-house finite element simulator. In order to represent the geomechanical behavior of the fractures, Mohr-Coulomb criterion is adopted together with a traction-separation law based on the model proposed by Bandis. Parallel plate law describes the longitudinal fluid flow along the fracture...

... heterogeneity. As such, accurate fracture modelling and simulation can greatly decrease the uncertainties in the process and reduce the risks to the assets. Hydraulic fracturing is a multi-physics application that couples fluid driven solid deformation, fracture propagation, fluid flow in porous media...

... ABSTRACT: Solid particles have been widely used in the petroleum industry for applications including fluid diversion, wellbore strengthening and hydraulic fracturing. The corresponding permeability and fluid flow through packed particles (diverting agents or proppant sands) dictate...

...) and cohesive zone method (CZM). The model can simultaneously capture HF initiation, propagation and re-orientation, fracturing fluid flow and leakoff, formation fluid flow and rock deformation. Interesting results show that (1) pore pressure, stress magnitude and stress orientation are gradually altered...

... not been thoroughly studied. Hence, to optimize parent-infill well development, we will study fracture propagation in infill wells and investigate frac hits between infill and parent wells. We have developed an efficient coupled fluid flow and geomechanics model to characterize stress change in reservoirs...

...1. INTRODUCTION Fractures, both artificial and natural fractures, play an important role in oilfield development, especially in fractured or unconventional reservoirs, due to the extremely low matrix permeability. Fractures work as conduits for fluid flow in formations. Therefore, the conductivity...

..., a 3D DEM lattice simulator is utilized to model the simultaneous growth and mechanical interference among members of an array of hydraulic fractures along a horizontal well. The deformation and fracturing of the rock matrix are simulated by the lattice. Fluid flow is implemented within the fractures...

... equation of unstable fluid flow in the wellbore is established, the tangential stress around the wellbore is analyzed, and the criteria for diagnosing the fracture types is proposed. Moreover, the propagation equation of hydraulic pressure vibration wave inside the fracture is established. The results...

... coefficient hydraulic fracturing thermally borehole local thermal equilibrium heat transfer fluid flow skeleton hydraulic fracture Reservoir Characterization Upstream Oil & Gas pore pressure international journal tangential stress wellbore fracture equation ABSTRACT: Thermally induced...

... ABSTRACT: The production of naturally fractured reservoirs is highly influenced by these features, which increases the permeability and alter the flow trajectory and the pressures in the reservoir. Studies of fluid flow in fractured media have recently gained interest due to the high...

... simulation of primary fluid flow through the interfaces between the rock mass blocks and secondary fluid flow into the rock block matrix. The modelling results shows that several key observations in the field of geothermal reservoir stimulation and long-term wastewater disposal are well captured, which...

... Magnitude geometry dynamic viscosity reynolds number fluid flow flow velocity flow behavior 1. INTRODUCTION The study of fluid flow through the rocks including pores and discontinuities is very crucial in different areas of industrial and research application. This phenomenon is of very great...

... flow assurance particle fluid flow erosion Sand Erosion cavity porosity anisotropic stress test reservoir geomechanics pore pressure gradient prediction Vardoulakis equation sand mass pressure gradient plastic shear strain 1. INTRODUCTION Erosion of reservoir sandstones during...

... with the discrete element method (DEM) is used to model fluid flow through a granular medium. We adopt the resolved CFD-DEM approach which models the solid phase using the fictitious domain method and captures the particle-particle/fluid interactions even at high particle concentrations. Two benchmark problems...