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In this paper, the recently developed Embedded Fracture Continuum (EFC) approach will be used to model the fractured reservoir at the large scale. This novel approach borrows the concept of continuum models and incorporates the effect of fractures explicitly by using the fracture cell concept which represents the grid mesh intersected by one or many fractures in the medium. Each fracture cell presents a porous medium that has its own properties calculated from the contributed properties of intact matrix and fractures. The considered problem consists of simulating the primary depletion of fractured reservoir in which the short and medium fractures will be accounted for implicitly in the homogenized porous medium through the upscaling procedure while the embedded long fracture networks are explicitly taken into account. Through this application, we demonstrate and highlight the performance of the EFC approach.
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20 July 2019
The affiliation “Civil Engineering Faculty, University of Transport and Communication, Hanoi, Vietnam” of author “Hong-Lam Dang” in the original version of the book has been changed to “University of Transport and Communications, No.3 Cau Giay Street, Hanoi, Vietnam” in the chapter “Fractured Reservoirs Modeling by Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach: Field-Scale Applications”. This has been corrected in the updated version.
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Dang, HL., Do, DP., Hoxha, D. (2019). Fractured Reservoirs Modeling by Embedded Fracture Continuum Approach: Field-Scale Applications. In: Randolph, M., Doan, D., Tang, A., Bui, M., Dinh, V. (eds) Proceedings of the 1st Vietnam Symposium on Advances in Offshore Engineering. VSOE 2018. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 18. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2306-5_15
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