Principal Investigator Ruben Juanes
Coupled flow and geomechanics has emerged as one of the critical research areas in reservoir science and engineering. While the recognition that flow and deformation are strongly-coupled processes is not new, current tools are insufficient to adequately forecast reservoir deformation in response to oil and gas production, especially in stress-sensitive or faulted reservoirs. We have developed efficient algorithms for sequential coupling flow and deformation, and implemented them in a unique modeling tool for the simulation of coupled flow and geomechanics in fractured and faulted reservoirs.