The horizontal wells and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing technologies play a significantly important role in developing unconventional reservoirs. Due to the nanopore effects and stress deformation ...

Horizontal wells are the primary method for developing bottom-water reservoirs. Accurately understanding the production contribution of each segment of a horizontal well and the downhole production ...

What governs the speed at which raindrops fall, sediment settles in river estuaries, and matter is ejected during a supernova? These questions circle around one, deceitfully simple factor: the rate at ...

Scientists have revealed new insights into the behavior of black holes with research that demonstrates how a phenomenon called backreaction can be simulated. The researchers used a water tank ...

Fluid simulations are a key tool in fields from aerospace to motorsports and even civil engineering. They can be three-dimensional and complicated and often run on supercomputer clusters bigger than ...

Reservoir simulation is the physics-based, numerical prediction of subsurface fluid flow used to design field development and optimize production over the asset life. 2.1 Corner-point or unstructured ...

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) project sanctioning requires reasonable estimates of CO 2 storage volume and plume migration in the reservoir. Numerical simulation based on geological data provides ...