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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2022
Ifp Energies Nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison, FR;
Didier Yu Ding, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, FR;
IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, FR;
Abstract
The present invention is a method of simulating fluid flows in an underground formation comprising a fracture network. A porosity model is constructed, comprising a first medium representative of an unfractured matrix, a second medium representative of fractures oriented in a first direction and a third medium representative of fractures oriented in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. From at least the porosity model, flow parameters of a grid representation of the formation are determined, which include conduction and convection transmissibilities between two neighboring cells for the second and third media, as well as mass and energy exchanges by convection and conduction between each medium taken two by two for a single cell. Flows in the formation are simulated by f a flow simulator implementing the porosity model.