The Influence of Fracture on the Permeability of Carbonate Reservoir Formation Using Lattice Boltzmann Method

• Published in: Water (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 22; p. 3162
• Main Authors: Zhang, Lei, Ping, Jingjing, Shu, Pinghua, Xu, Chao, Li, Aoyang, Zeng, Qingdong, Liu, Pengfei, Sun, Hai, Yang, Yongfei, Yao, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.11.2021
• Subjects: carbonate reservoir; Coalbed methane; fracture and vugs; Fractured reservoirs; Fractures; Hydraulics; Information storage; lattice boltzmann method; Permeability; Reservoirs; Simulation

Due to the complex conditions of carbonate reservoir, in this paper, a unified lattice Boltzmann method was used to study the rule of the flow in carbonate reservoir as the foundation. Two group models were designed to simulate the influences of fractures and vugs. In experiments, at first, the mode...