Transport in Porous Media, Vol.65, No.3, 425-441, 2006
3D coupled displacement discontinuity and finite element analysis of reservoir behavior during production in semi-infinite domain
In this paper, we apply a DDM-FEM coupling method to reservoir simulation to evaluate the reservoir behavior over a compacting oil reservoir in half space. We use displacement discontinuity methods to account for the reservoir surroundings, and finite element methods in the fully coupled simulation of the reservoir itself.
Keywords:poroelasticity;reservoir simulation;semi-infinite domain;displacement discontinuity method;finite element method