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Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Dual Porosity Method on Parallel Computers: Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

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HPCAsia '19: Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region

Pages 91 - 100

https://doi.org/10.1145/3293320.3293322

Published: 14 January 2019 Publication History

HPCAsia '19: Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region

Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Dual Porosity Method on Parallel Computers: Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Pages 91 - 100

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The two-phase oil-water flow in naturally fractured reservoirs and its numerical methods are introduced in this paper, where the fractured reservoirs are modeled by the dual porosity method. An efficient numerical scheme, including the finite difference (volume) method, CPR-FPF preconditioners for linear systems and effective decoupling methods, is presented. Parallel computing techniques employed in simulation of the two-phase flow are also presented. Using these numerical scheme and parallel techniques, a parallel reservoir simulator is developed, which is capable of simulating large-scale reservoir models. The numerical results show that this simulator is accurate and scalable compared to the commercial software and the numerical scheme is also effective.

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Sun YWang JWang TLi JWei ZFan ALiu HChen SZhang ZChen YHuang L(2024)Post-Fracture Production Prediction with Production Segmentation and Well Logging: Harnessing Pipelines and Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCVApplied Sciences10.3390/app1410395414:10(3954)Online publication date: 7-May-2024
https://doi.org/10.3390/app14103954

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Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Dual Porosity Method on Parallel Computers: Numerical Simulation of Two-phase Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Parallel computing methodologies
    1. Parallel algorithms
      1. Massively parallel algorithms

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Sun YWang JWang TLi JWei ZFan ALiu HChen SZhang ZChen YHuang L(2024)Post-Fracture Production Prediction with Production Segmentation and Well Logging: Harnessing Pipelines and Hyperparameter Tuning with GridSearchCVApplied Sciences10.3390/app1410395414:10(3954)Online publication date: 7-May-2024
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