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An important task in reservoir simulation is to take into account the effect of a hydraulic fracture on the well’s performance. The upscaling method allows efficiently computing the inflow into a well with a fracture on a coarse grid. A numerical near-well upscaling procedure for hydraulic fractures on an unstructured Voronoi grid is proposed. The upscaling procedure is shown to be significantly more accurate than the classical EDFM method.
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This work was supported by a grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 17-41-020226-p_a).
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Kireev, T.F., Bulgakova, G.T. Near-Well Upscaling to Simulate Wells with Hydraulic Fractures. Math Models Comput Simul 11, 877–883 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2070048219060097
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