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A Well Simulator for Homogeneous Reservoirs Based on Formulations of the Isogeometric Boundary Element Method by Lúcio G. Nascimento; Gustavo S. V. Gontijo; Éder L. Albuquerque; Lucas S. Campos; Jon Trevelyan; Eugênio L. F. Fortaleza is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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The development of a simulator for homogeneous reservoirs with application in producer wells (represented by a sink) and the aquifer analysis is obtained by combining the Boundary Element Method (BEM), the Isogeometric Formulation using NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline) as shape functions, and also the Axisymmetric Formulation. The Isogeometric Formulation makes the discretization of geometric model (mesh generation), which is the step of numerical analysis that is more time-consuming for the engineer, be no longer necessary, since the same functions that describe the geometry also approximate the field variables in the BEM. In other words, the same discretization used in the geometric model, generated in CAD (Computer Aided Design) modeling programs, also is used by the BEM. The oil and water reservoirs, as simplified models for validation of the new mathematical methodology, can be fully represented by the analysis of a plane passing through the axis of rotational (axial) symmetry. The dimension of the problem is reduced from three to two dimensions: radial and axial directions only, and all variables in the circumferential direction are assumed to be constant. When the geome

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Author

Lúcio G. Nascimento; Gustavo S. V. Gontijo; Éder L. Albuquerque; Lucas S. Campos; Jon Trevelyan; Eugênio L. F. Fortaleza

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)