On the use of enriched finite element method to model subsurface features in porous media flow problems

DOI10.1007/s10596-011-9239-1zbMath1237.76193OpenAlexW1983661550MaRDI QIDQ416072

Hao Huang, William P. Brown, Jing Wan, Ted A. Long

Publication date: 9 May 2012

Published in: Computational Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-011-9239-1

zbMATH Keywords

fracturereservoir simulationcompletiongeneralized finite element methodextended finite element methodpartition of unityupscalingwormholeperforationcompletion efficiencynear-well physicswell performance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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Comparison and application of non-conforming mesh models for flow in fractured porous media using dual Lagrange multipliers ⋮ Dimensionally reduced flow models in fractured porous media: crossings and boundaries ⋮ Model reduction and discretization using hybrid finite volumes for flow in porous media containing faults ⋮ Enriched finite elements for branching cracks in deformable porous media ⋮ A fully-coupled upwind discontinuous Galerkin method for incompressible porous media flows: high-order computations of viscous fingering instabilities in complex geometry ⋮ A Lagrange multiplier method for a discrete fracture model for flow in porous media ⋮ Flow simulations in porous media with immersed intersecting fractures ⋮ The hybrid dimensional representation of permeability tensor: a reinterpretation of the discrete fracture model and its extension on nonconforming meshes ⋮ Extended finite element method for predicting productivity of multifractured horizontal wells ⋮ A high-order, fully coupled, upwind, compact discontinuous Galerkin method for modeling of viscous fingering in compressible porous media ⋮ A Nitsche stabilized finite element method for frictional sliding on embedded interfaces. Part II: Intersecting interfaces ⋮ A simple finite element method for elliptic bulk problems with embedded surfaces ⋮ A simple embedded discrete fracture-matrix model for a coupled flow and transport problem in porous media ⋮ Analysis of a mimetic finite difference approximation of flows in fractured porous media ⋮ An unfitted finite element method for the Darcy problem in a fracture network

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