Numerical simulation of two-phase mass transport in three-dimensional naturally fractured reservoirs using discrete streamlines |
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| Authors: | Mahmoud Ahmadpour Mahdi Moghimi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Applied Multi-Phase Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran;2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran;3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | Simulation of multiphase mass transport in large field-scale heterogeneous, naturally fractured reservoirs with common grid-based methods is very time consuming and costly. An in-house streamline-based simulator is extended to simulate two-phase flow of oil and water in 3D heterogeneous, naturally fractured reservoirs. Different waterflooding problems have been simulated in 2D and 3D fractured reservoirs, and their results are compared with those of the grid-based commercial software. It has been shown that the streamline-based simulator can predict the results of the grid-based software with an acceptable accuracy, while its computational time and required memory is exceptionally less than the grid-based method. |
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