Development of a Reservoir Simulator to Model Single-Phase Flow in Porous Media

Babilas Hountondji; François de Paule Codo; Paul Maurille Lanmandjèkpogni

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Development of a Reservoir Simulator to Model Single-Phase Flow in Porous Media

Babilas Hountondji, François de Paule Codo, Paul Maurille Lanmandjèkpogni

Published in Earth Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 3)

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Abstract

Any groundwater reservoir requires tools to predict future performance as well as to optimize its operation. It is then necessary to simulate groundwater flow in porous media because of the uncertainty and heterogeneity associated with reservoirs. This study developed a reservoir simulator for modeling a single-phase flow in a porous medium. The development of the simulator consists of the physical and mathematical modeling of the reservoir. A MATLAB code was developed to describe groundwater flow in order to appreciate reservoir hydrodynamic pressure distributions from hydraulic head as a function of radial distance while varying the production flow. The formulation equation obtained was solved by the direct method. Examples of graphical plots generated from the simulator illustrate that before the coordinate point P (r=33.74m; h=286.65m) for any value of production flow, hydraulic head or hydrodynamic pressure of the reservoir increases equally with radial distance. This reflects the same drop in the static pressure of the reservoir. Beyond point P, there is a further increase in the hydraulic head, i.e., the hydrodynamic pressure of the reservoir as the production flow increases with the increase in population. This results in a drop in the static pressure of the reservoir in proportion to the increase in the production flow. The variations of the production flow carried out show that the static pressure of the reservoir decreases when the production flow increases. Finally, the simulator to predict the hydraulic head distributions i.e., the hydrodynamic pressure of the reservoir in single-phase flow during production periods is a springboard towards the implementation of multi-phase fluid flow formulations.

Published in	Earth Sciences (Volume 11, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.earth.20221103.15
Page(s)	89-95
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Simulation, Groundwater, Porous Reservoir, Monzoungodo

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Babilas Hountondji

Water and Sanitation Engineering Department, National Water Institute, Abomey-Calavi, Benin
François de Paule Codo
Paul Maurille Lanmandjèkpogni

Water and Sanitation Engineering Department, National Water Institute, Abomey-Calavi, Benin

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