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Open AccessThe FluidFlower Validation Benchmark Study for the Storage of CO \(_2\)
Successful deployment of geological carbon storage (GCS) requires an extensive use of reservoir simulators for screening, ranking and optimization of storage sites. However, the time scales of GCS are such tha...
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Open AccessPoro-Mechanical Coupling for Flow Diagnostics
Accounting for poro-mechanical effects in full-field reservoir simulation studies and uncertainty quantification workflows using complex reservoir models is challenging, mainly because of the high computationa...
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Open AccessDigital Image-Based Stress–Permeability Relationships of Rough Fractures Using Numerical Contact Mechanics and Stokes Equation
Flow in fractures is sensitive to their geometrical surface characteristics. The surface can undergo deformation if there is a change in stress. Natural fractures have complex geometries and rough surfaces whi...
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Open AccessFluid Flow Characterization Framework for Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Small-Scale Fully Explicit Models
Flow modelling challenges in fractured reservoirs have led to the development of many simulation methods. It is often unclear which method should be employed. High-resolution discrete fracture and matrix (DFM)...
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Open AccessTowards pore network modelling of spontaneous imbibition: contact angle dependent invasion patterns and the occurrence of dynamic capillary barriers
Imbibition is an important process encountered in many porous media applications. At the pore scale, pore network models (PNM) are computationally efficient and can model drainage accurately. However, using PN...
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Open AccessFoundations and Their Practical Implications for the Constitutive Coefficients of Poromechanical Dual-Continuum Models
A dual-continuum model can offer a practical approach to understanding first-order behaviours of poromechanically coupled multiscale systems. To close the governing equations, constitutive equations with model...
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Open AccessFlow in Fractured Porous Media: A Review of Conceptual Models and Discretization Approaches
The last decade has seen a strong increase of research into flows in fractured porous media, mainly related to subsurface processes but also in materials science and biological applications, as connected fract...
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Open AccessStreamline simulation of a reactive advective flow with discontinuous flux function
Reactive transport in porous media with dissolution and precipitation has important applications in oil and gas industry and groundwater remediation. In this work, we present a simulation method for reactive f...
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Open AccessSpontaneous imbibition in a microchannel: analytical solution and assessment of volume of fluid formulations
The simulation of multi-phase flow at low capillary numbers (Ca) remains a challenge. Approximate computations of the capillary forces tend to induce parasitic currents (PC) around the interface. These PC indu...
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Hysteretic upscaled constitutive relationships for vertically integrated porous media flow
Subsurface two-phase flow in porous media often takes place in reservoirs with a high ratio between the associated lateral and vertical extent and the lateral and vertical flow time scales. This allows for a t...