US Patent No. 10,920,539
NITSCHE CONTINUITY ENFORCEMENT FOR NON-CONFORMING MESHES
| Patent No. | 10,920,539 |
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| Issue Date | February 16, 2021 |
| Title | Nitsche Continuity Enforcement For Non-conforming Meshes |
| Inventorship | Gauthier D. Becker, The Woodlands, TX (US) Hao Huang, The Woodlands, TX (US) Huafei Sun, Houston, TX (US) |
| Assignee | ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Spring, TX (US) |
Claim of US Patent No. 10,920,539
1. A method for modeling a subsurface reservoir system, the method comprising:generating, with a computer, a background mesh that does not honor at least one subsurface feature included in the subsurface reservoir system;
splitting, with a computer, the background mesh along the subsurface feature included in the subsurface reservoir system such that a resulting mesh honors a geometry of the subsurface features;
identifying, with a computer, element faces or edges where the resulting mesh is non-conforming and/or the element faces or edges lie on subsurface features; and
performing a computer-based numerical simulation utilizing the resulting mesh to model at least one fluid-related or geomechanical reservoir response, wherein mass or traction balance is enforced on the identified element faces or edges.
splitting, with a computer, the background mesh along the subsurface feature included in the subsurface reservoir system such that a resulting mesh honors a geometry of the subsurface features;
identifying, with a computer, element faces or edges where the resulting mesh is non-conforming and/or the element faces or edges lie on subsurface features; and
performing a computer-based numerical simulation utilizing the resulting mesh to model at least one fluid-related or geomechanical reservoir response, wherein mass or traction balance is enforced on the identified element faces or edges.