High-fidelity experimental model verification for flow in fractured porous media

Jakub Wiktor Both; Bergit Brattekås; Eirik Keilegavlen; Martin Fernø; Jan Martin Nordbotten

doi:10.69631/ipj.v1i3nr31

Authors

Jakub Wiktor Both University of Bergen https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6131-4976
Bergit Brattekås University of Bergen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4287-2611
Eirik Keilegavlen University of Bergen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0333-9507
Martin Fernø University of Bergen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5745-0825
Jan Martin Nordbotten University of Bergen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1455-5704

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.69631/ipj.v1i3nr31

Keywords:

Flow in fractured media, Mixed-dimensional modeling, PET imaging, Wasserstein distance, model verification

Abstract

Mixed-dimensional mathematical models for flow in fractured media have been prevalent in the modeling community for almost two decades, utilizing the explicit representation of fractures by lower-dimensional manifolds embedded in the surrounding porous media. In this work, for the first time, direct qualitative and quantitative comparisons of mixed-dimensional models are drawn against laboratory experiments. Dedicated displacement experiments of steady-state laminar flow in fractured media are investigated using both high-resolution PET images as well as state-of-the-art numerical simulations.

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