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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2013
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Steven Bryan Ward, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Loyd Brewer, Katy, TX (US);
Landmark Graphics Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating hybrid computational meshes around complex and discrete fractures for the purpose of reservoir simulation. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a method that comprises receiving a set of 3D fracture surfaces with geometry that has been discretized in a 2D manifold by a collection of polygons. The method defines a family of non-intersecting 2D slicing surfaces for slicing the set of 3D fracture surfaces. The method then uses the intersection of the 2D slicing surface with the 2D manifolds defining the fracture surfaces to create a set of 2D fractures on each slicing surface. Following a series of steps, the method generates three-dimensional shells connecting a set of stadia corresponding to each fracture on each 2D slicing surface to a corresponding set of stadia on a neighboring 2D slicing surface for creating a three-dimensional model.