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Flow through a fault zone



Oil (left) and Gas (right) Saturation




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Remark: To better visualize the flow path, only saturations in the interval [0.05, 1.0] are plotted.
This causes a "tunneling" effect which makes the gas appear to flow into the vertical fault core from the sides.
More details in these pdf-slides: Modelling fractured and faulted regions: LGR methods for implicit solvers
Presentation given at Applied Mathematics for Industrial Flow Problems Third International Conference, April 17-20, 2002 Lisbon-Portugal
About the simulator SOM, Introduction