Journal
ROCK MECHANICS AND ROCK ENGINEERING
Volume 46, Issue 5, Pages 1103-1112Publisher
SPRINGER WIEN
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-012-0313-3
Keywords
Hydromechanical process; Rock mechanics; Dual continuum; CO2 geological sequestration; Numerical simulation
Funding
- Office of Sequestration, Hydrogen, and Clean Coal Fuels of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
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Fractured rock has often been conceptualized as a dual-continuum system for many practical applications. This study proposes a systematic approach to deal with multiphase flow in a dual-continuum system. Considering that fluid flow occurs in pore volumes (including fracture apertures), we first develop a so-called pore-space conservation equation for deformed fractured rock and then combine this equation with fluid mass balance to derive governing equations for multiphase flow associated with rock deformation. Constitutive relationships are also presented for describing stress dependence of hydraulic properties and effective mechanical parameters for bulk rock body (as a function of the corresponding parameters for fracture and matrix continua). Finally, we applied the developed approach to a CO2 geological sequestration problem to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach.
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