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Sequential Methods for Coupled Geomechanics and Multiphase Flow

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5.18 Pressure history at the observation well (2,5) <strong>for</strong> Case 5.6 with different<br />

deviation factors when 0.95 × K 1D<br />

dr<br />

, 1.05 × K1D<br />

dr , <strong>and</strong> K3D<br />

dr<br />

are taken <strong>for</strong> Kest<br />

dr . 162<br />

6.1 The region <strong>for</strong> the linear theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170<br />

6.2 Water injection <strong>and</strong> oil production. Left: coupled multiphase flow <strong>and</strong> ge-<br />

omechanics in a 1D poroelastic medium with overburden. Right: coupled<br />

multiphase flow <strong>and</strong> geomechanics in a 2D poroelastic medium with overbur-<br />

den <strong>and</strong> side burden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195<br />

6.3 Top: pressure history at the monitoring well during simulation. Bottom:<br />

water saturation profile after simulation. Pd = P/Po,i. . . . . . . . . . . . . 197<br />

6.4 Convergence behaviors during iterations at td = 0.08. Top: pressure. Bot-<br />

tom: water saturation. · is the L 2 norm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199<br />

6.5 Pressure (top) <strong>and</strong> water saturation (bottom) distributions after simulation. 201<br />

6.6 Top: pressure history at the monitoring well during simulation. Bottom:<br />

water saturation profile at the bottom layer after simulation. . . . . . . . . 202<br />

6.7 Convergence behaviors during iterations at the first time step. Top: pressure.<br />

Bottom: water saturation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204<br />

6.8 Pressure history at the monitoring well during simulation. Top: the drained<br />

<strong>and</strong> fixed-strain splits. Bottom: the undrained <strong>and</strong> fixed-stress splits. The<br />

drained <strong>and</strong> fixed-strain splits become unstable due to water injection whereas<br />

the undrained <strong>and</strong> fixed-stress splits yield stability with good accuracy. . . 206<br />

A.1 Left: the Terzaghi problem. Right: the two dimensional plain strain strip<br />

footing consolidation problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217<br />

A.2 Case A.1 Stability of pressure at early time <strong>for</strong> Terzaghi’s problem. Top:<br />

pressure distributions at early <strong>and</strong> late time by the nodal based finite element<br />

method, where linear interpolation is used <strong>for</strong> pressure <strong>and</strong> displacement<br />

(Wan, 2002). Bottom: pressure distributions at early <strong>and</strong> late time by the<br />

combined finite-volume <strong>and</strong> finite-element approach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218<br />

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