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Sequential Methods for Coupled Geomechanics and Multiphase Flow

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5 Fixed-strain <strong>and</strong> Fixed-stress Splits 117<br />

5.1 Operator Splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

5.1.1 Fixed-strain split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

5.1.2 Fixed-stress split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118<br />

5.1.3 Conventional reservoir simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

5.2 Stability Analysis <strong>for</strong> Linear Poroelasticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

5.2.1 Fixed-strain split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

5.2.2 Fixed-stress split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122<br />

5.3 Contractivity of the Nonlinear Continuum Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

5.3.1 Non-contractivity of the fixed-strain split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />

5.3.2 Contractivity of the fixed-stress split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />

5.4 Discrete Stability of the Nonlinear Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127<br />

5.5 Error Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132<br />

5.5.1 Error amplification of the fixed-strain split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134<br />

5.5.2 Error amplification of the fixed-stress split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136<br />

5.6 Numerical Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139<br />

5.6.1 Stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139<br />

5.6.2 Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154<br />

5.6.3 Effect of the deviation factor η . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158<br />

6 <strong>Coupled</strong> <strong>Multiphase</strong> <strong>Flow</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Geomechanics</strong> 163<br />

6.1 <strong>Sequential</strong> <strong>Methods</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Multiphase</strong> <strong>Flow</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

6.1.1 Drained split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164<br />

6.1.2 Undrained split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165<br />

6.1.3 Fixed-strain split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166<br />

6.1.4 Fixed-stress split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166<br />

6.2 Staggered Newton schemes <strong>for</strong> <strong>Multiphase</strong> <strong>Flow</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

6.2.1 Convergence of FIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167<br />

6.2.2 Drained split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

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