Finite element solution for a coal-bed methane reservoir model

R. Touzani, L. Alessio, D. Kuzmichev and R. Buoy

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 2017, vol. 137, issue C, 448-461

Abstract: We present a mathematical model for fluid flow in porous media in the case of coal bed methane reservoirs. The model consists of a two-phase immiscible fluid flow with gas and water and takes into account desorption. We discretize the problem by a finite element method with adding a streamline diffusion term for the case of small capillary pressure. Time integration uses the fully implicit Euler scheme. Numerical experiments in radial and fully 2-D cases show the effectiveness of the model and numerical method.

Keywords: Porous media; Two-phase flow; Finite elements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2017.01.005

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