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Upscaling unsaturated flow in fractured rock remains challenging because fractures and matrix often exhibit sharply contrasting hydraulic behaviors across saturation states. Here, we demonstrate that unsaturated flow undergoes a transition…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Muhammad R. Andiva , Chuanyin Jiang , Martin Ziegler , Qinghua Lei

In this paper, we present a monolithic multigrid method for the efficient solution of flow problems in fractured porous media. Specifically, we consider a mixed-dimensional model which couples Darcy flow in the porous matrix with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Andrés Arrarás , Francisco J. Gaspar , Laura Portero , Carmen Rodrigo

In this paper we give a new proof of the homogenization result for an immiscible incompressible two-phase flow in double porosity media obtained earlier in the pioneer work by A. Bourgeat, S. Luckhaus, A. Mikeli\'c (1996) and in the paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Brahim Amaziane , Mladen Jurak , Leonid Pankratov , Anja Vrbaski

Polymer solutions are frequently used in enhanced oil recovery and groundwater remediation to improve the recovery of trapped non-aqueous fluids. However, applications are limited by an incomplete understanding of the flow in porous media.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-09 Christopher A. Browne , Audrey Shih , Sujit S. Datta

In this work, we consider a mathematical model for flow in a unsaturated porous medium containing a fracture. In all subdomains (the fracture and the adjacent matrix blocks) the flow is governed by Richards' equation. The submodels are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Florian List , Kundan Kumar , Iuliu Sorin Pop , Florin A. Radu

We present a multi-resolution approach for constructing model-based simulations of hydraulic fracturing, wherein flow through porous media is coupled with fluid-driven fracture. The approach consists of a hybrid scheme that couples a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andre Costa , Matteo Cusini , Tao Jin , Randolph Settgast , John Dolbow

Faults and geological barriers can drastically affect the flow patterns in porous media. Such fractures can be modeled as interfaces that interact with the surrounding matrix. We propose a new technique for the estimation of the location…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Hend Ben Ameur , Guy Chavent , Cheikh Fatma , François Clément , Vincent Martin , Jean E. Roberts

In this article, we present new random walk methods to solve flow and transport problems in unsaturated/saturated porous media, including coupled flow and transport processes in soils, heterogeneous systems modeled through random hydraulic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Nicolae Suciu , Davide Illiano , Alexander Prechtel , Florin A. Radu

The last decade has seen a strong increase of research into flows in fractured porous media, mainly related to subsurface processes, but also in materials science and biological applications. Connected fractures totally dominate…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Inga Berre , Florian Doster , Eirik Keilegavlen

We describe a method to address efficiently problems of two-phase flow in the regime of low particle Reynolds number and negligible Brownian motion. One of the phases is an incompressible continuous fluid and the other a discrete…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Stefan Schwarzer

Shale gas recovery has seen a major boom in recent years due to the increasing global energy demands; but the extraction technologies are very expensive. It is therefore important to develop realistic transport modelling and simulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-18 Iftikhar Ali , Nadeem A. Malik

The continuum-scale electrokinetic porous-media flow and excess charge redistribution equations are uncoupled using eigenvalue decomposition. The uncoupling results in a pair of independent diffusion equations for "intermediate" potentials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Kristopher L. Kuhlman , Bwalya Malama

A new discretization approach is presented for the simulation of flow in complex poro-fractured media described by means of the Discrete Fracture and Matrix Model. The method is based on the numerical optimization of a properly defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Stefano Berrone , Alessandro D'Auria , Stefano Scialo'

Porous media are ubiquitous in energy storage and conversion, catalysis, biomechanics, hydrogeology, as well as many other fields. These materials possess high surface-to-volume ratios and their complex channels can restrict and guide the…

A classical model for water-gas flows in porous media is considered. The degenerate coupled system of equations obtained by mass conservation is usually approximated by finite volume schemes in the oil reservoir simulations. The convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-18 Mostafa Bendahmane , Ziad Khalil , Mazen Saad

This paper deals with the efficient numerical solution of single-phase flow problems in fractured porous media. A monolithic multigrid method is proposed for solving two-dimensional arbitrary fracture networks with vertical and/or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Andrés Arrarás , Francisco J. Gaspar , Laura Portero , Carmen Rodrigo

Pore-scale simulations accurately describe transport properties of fluids in the subsurface. These simulations enhance our understanding of applications such as assessing hydrogen storage efficiency and forecasting CO$_2$ sequestration…

In this study, we develop computational models and methodology for accurate multi-component-flow simulation in under-resolved multi-scale porous structures. It is generally impractical to fully resolve the flow in porous structures with…

We present a versatile open-source pipeline for simulating inhomogeneous reaction-diffusion processes in highly resolved, image-based geometries of porous media with reactive boundaries. Resolving realistic pore-scale geometries in…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Justina Stark , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

In this work we present the mathematical models for single-phase flow in fractured porous media. An overview of the most common approaches is considered, which includes continuous fracture models and discrete fracture models. For the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Luca Formaggia , Anna Scotti , Alessio Fumagalli