Numerical Calculation of Equivalent Cell Permeability Tensors for General Quadrilateral Control Volumes |
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| Authors: | Chuanping He Michael G Edwards Louis J Durlofsky |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2220, USA;(2) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK;(3) ChevronTexaco Exploration and Production Technology Company, San Ramon, CA, USA |
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| Abstract: | A new method for upscaling fine scale permeability fields to general quadrilateral-shaped coarse cells is presented. The procedure, referred to as the conforming scale up method, applies a triangle-based finite element technique, capable of accurately resolving both the coarse cell geometry and the subgrid heterogeneity, to the solution of the local fine scale problem. An appropriate averaging of this solution provides the equivalent permeability tensor for the coarse scale quadrilateral cell. The general level of accuracy of the technique is demonstrated through application to a number of flow problems. The real strength of the conforming scale up method is demonstrated when the method is applied in conjunction with a flow-based gridding technique. In this case, the approach is shown to provide results that are significantly more accurate than those obtained using standard techniques. |
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| Keywords: | effective permeability heterogeneity irregular geometry reservoir simulation upscaling |
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