Hydraulic fracturing is a dominant technology in unconventional resources development.
Recent advances in fracture-diagnostic tools and fracture-propagation models make it …

This paper presents several test cases intended to be benchmarks for numerical schemes
for single-phase fluid flow in fractured porous media. A number of solution strategies are …

Corner-point grids have the capability to model complex geological features, such as faults
and irregular reservoir boundaries. As an industry standard, they are widely used to simulate …

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 …

In this paper, we propose a novel discrete fracture model for flow simulation of fractured
porous media containing flow blocking barriers on non-conforming meshes. The …

A new approach for numerically solving flow in Discrete Fracture Networks (DFN) is
developed in this work by means of the Virtual Element Method (VEM). Taking advantage of …

In the last years, hydraulic fracturing (HF) has reached maturity, becoming a fundamental
aspect of hydrocarbon productivity enhancement and an important component of well costs …

Numerical simulation considering complex fracture networks in tight oil reservoir becomes a
hot issue during these years. Recently, embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM) shows …

Fractured reservoirs have gained continuous attention from oil and gas industry. A huge
amount of hydrocarbon are trapped in naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs. Besides, the …

The goal of this study is to develop a new model to simulate gas and water transport in shale
nanopores and complex fractures. A new gas diffusivity equation was first derived to …