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- Title
FRACTAL ANALYSIS FOR PERMEABILITY OF MULTIPLE SHALE GAS TRANSPORT MECHANISMS IN ROUGHENED TREE-LIKE NETWORKS.
- Authors
ZHANG, YIDAN; XIAO, BOQI; WANG, YANBIN; ZHANG, GUOYING; WANG, YI; HU, HAORAN; LONG, GONGBO
- Abstract
In this work, a new gas transport model for shale reservoirs is constructed by embedding randomly distributed roughened tree-like bifurcation networks into the matrix porous medium. We constructed apparent permeability models for different shale gas flow mechanisms based on fractal theory, taking into account the effects of relative roughness and surface diffusion. The effects of bifurcation structure parameters as well as shale gas parameters on different apparent permeabilities are systematically analyzed. It is found that the permeability generally shows a decreasing trend with the increase in pore pressure, but the effect on viscous flow is inconsiderable. In addition, larger porosity, fractal dimension and bifurcation levels lead to increased permeability of different mechanisms. Whereas, the increase in the bifurcation levels implies a greater flow resistance, resulting in a decreased permeability. In addition, The relative roughness hinders the development of total permeability but favors surface diffusion permeability. Moreover, larger length ratios and diameter ratios are beneficial to the shale gas flow.
- Subjects
OIL shales; FRACTAL analysis; PERMEABILITY; SURFACE diffusion; VISCOUS flow; BIFURCATION diagrams; SHALE gas; FRACTALS; SHALE oils
- Publication
Fractals, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0218-348X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218348X24500580