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 …

Numerical simulation of two-phase heat and mass transfer in fractured reservoirs based on projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM)

X Rao, L Xin, Y He, X Fang, R Gong, F Wang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract pEDFM is a newly developed numerical simulation framework for mass transfer in
fractured reservoirs, and this paper aims to study the application of the pEDFM framework to …

A modified projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM) for practical and accurate numerical simulation of fractured reservoir

X Rao, L Cheng, R Cao, P Jia, H Liu, X Du - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract pEDFM is a new numerical model which is proposed in the last three years to
handle the flow simulation with complex fracture networks. Previous works show that …

Artificial-neural-network (ANN) based proxy model for performances forecast and inverse project design of water huff-n-puff technology

X Rao, H Zhao, Q Deng - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Water huff-n-puff is an effective improved oil recovery (IOR) technology for tight or low-
permeability reservoirs which are developed by fractured horizontal wells. This paper trains …

A continuous projection-based EDFM model for flow in fractured reservoirs

HU Rashid, O Olorode - SPE Journal, 2024 - onepetro.org
Various researchers have evaluated different methods of modeling fractured reservoirs
accurately and efficiently. Of these methods, the embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM) …

[HTML][HTML] A meshless numerical modeling method for fractured reservoirs based on extended finite volume method

X Rao, H Zhao, Y Liu - SPE Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
In this paper, a meshless numerical modeling method named mesh-free discrete fracture
model (MFDFM) of fractured reservoirs based on the newly developed extended finite …

[HTML][HTML] A novel streamline simulation method for fractured reservoirs with full-tensor permeability

X Rao, X He, H Kwak, A Yousef, H Hoteit - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we develop a novel streamline (SL) simulation method that integrates
seamlessly within the embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM). The novel SL-based …

Numerical simulation of compositional flow in shale gas-condensate reservoirs using generic projection-based embedded discrete fracture model

C Luo, X Rao, X He - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Current commercial and in-house numerical simulators often employ discrete fracture
models (DFM) and embedded discrete fracture models (EDFM) for flow simulation in …

A novel projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM) for anisotropic two-phase flow simulation using hybrid of two-point flux approximation and …

X Rao, X He, K Du, H Kwak, A Yousef… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel projection-based embedded discrete fracture model (pEDFM)
applicable to general two-phase flow simulation in anisotropic reservoirs for the first time …

Hybrid Mimetic Finite Difference and Streamline Methods for Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Fractured Reservoirs

X Rao, S Guo, X He, H Kwak, A Yousef… - Computers and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we present a novel numerical formulation for efficiently modeling two-phase
flow in fractured reservoirs. The novel formulation is developed by hybridizing mimetic finite …