ResFrac Technical Writeup

ResFrac is a combined hydraulic fracturing, reservoir, and hydraulic fracturing simulator. It describes multiphase fluid flow (black oil or compositional), proppant transport, transport of non-Newtonian fluid additives, and thermal transport. It also includes stress shadowing from fracture propagati...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-11
Main Authors: McClure, Mark, Kang, Charles, Medam, Soma, Hewson, Chris, Dontsov, Egor, Singh, Ankush, Peruzzo, Carlo, Gordeliy, Elizaveta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Additives
Computational fluid dynamics
Computer simulation
Constitutive equations
Constitutive relationships
Crack propagation
Fluid flow
Fracture mechanics
Hydraulic fracturing
Mathematical analysis
Newtonian fluids
Non Newtonian fluids
Stress propagation
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Summary:ResFrac is a combined hydraulic fracturing, reservoir, and hydraulic fracturing simulator. It describes multiphase fluid flow (black oil or compositional), proppant transport, transport of non-Newtonian fluid additives, and thermal transport. It also includes stress shadowing from fracture propagation and porothermoelastic responses from pressure change in the matrix. It uses constitutive equations that smoothly transition between equations for flow through an open crack to flow through a closed crack (with or without proppant). This document provides a detailed technical description of the code, along with validation simulations to confirm numerical accuracy.
ISSN:2331-8422