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In this paper, we study two different model reduction strategies for solving problems involving single phase flow in a porous medium containing faults or fractures whose location and properties are known. These faults are represented as interfaces of dimension N − 1 immersed in an N dimensional domain. Both approaches can handle various configurations of position and permeability of the faults, and one can handle different fracture permeabilities on the two inner sides of the fracture. For the numerical discretization, we use the hybrid finite volume scheme as it is known to be well suited to simulating subsurface flow. Some results, which may be of use in the implementation of the proposed methods in industrial codes, are demonstrated.
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Faille, I., Fumagalli, A., Jaffré, J. et al. Model reduction and discretization using hybrid finite volumes for flow in porous media containing faults. Comput Geosci 20, 317–339 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-016-9558-3
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