Articles | Volume 56
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-56-117-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-56-117-2021
16 Nov 2021
 | 16 Nov 2021

Evaluating Flow in Fractal-Fracture Networks: Effect of Variable Aperture

Ajay K. Sahu and Ankur Roy

Model code and software

Model Calibration and Efficient Reservoir Imaging (MCERI), TRACE3D, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Dwight Look College of Engineering, and Texas A&M University https://mceri.engr.tamu.edu/software.html

FracPaQ – Fracture Pattern Quantification D. Healy and R. Rizzo https://www.fracpaq.com/download.html

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Short summary
Flow patterns in fractal-fracture networks where the apertures scale as a power-law and a set of dominant sub-networks generated from a given fractal-fracture map by systematically removing the smaller aperture fractures is investigated. The recovery curves and TOFs of each network and its dominant sub-networks at different time steps are compared. Results show that in the case of such scaled aperture fractal-fracture systems, smaller fractures do not significantly contribute to the fluid flow.