Inertial and turbulent flow in hydro‐mechanically coupled KGD‐like fractures

Author:

Gee Bruce1ORCID,Gracie Robert1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario Canada

Abstract

AbstractFluid flow in deformable fractures is important to many applications including hydraulic stimulation. Fracture flow simulations typically rely on the Poiseuille flow model which presumes laminar quasi‐steady‐state flow conditions with negligible inertia. The high flow rates involved in industrial applications bring these assumptions into question. The GG22 flow model is a new method to capture inertial effects and turbulent flow phenomena with a moderate increase in computational complexity. Here we develop and verify the first hydro‐mechanically coupled finite element – finite volume model for fracture flow which uses the GG22 model. We use the model to examine fracture flow between oscillating elastic plates and show that inertia may elicit phase‐shifts in the fluid response, larger fluid pressures and rock mass stresses, and induce wave‐like behaviour even in a quasi‐static rock mass. We then apply the model to hydraulic stimulation of a cemented fracture in both the viscous and toughness dominant propagation regimes and examine the influence of inertia and turbulence compared to Poiseuille flow. We demonstrate that inertial effects due to the variation of aperture are negligible in two‐dimensional KGD‐like fractures with constant injection rates. If the flow rates are large enough to invoke turbulent flow behaviour, then significantly different fracture propagation behaviour is observed. The modelling established in this article will serve as the basis to examine the role of inertia and turbulence in axisymmetrical radial fractures and dynamic stimulation with pressure pulsing where we expect the role of inertia to be more significant.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Mechanics of Materials,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology,General Materials Science,Computational Mechanics

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