Accurate Reactive Transport Modeling in Heterogeneous Reservoirs with the Dual Mesh Method
Résumé
Abstract This paper recall the Compositional Dual Mesh Method, an extension to the concept of dual mesh for reactive transport modeling. This approach involves two meshes, a low-resolution mesh to resolve the pressure equation and a high-resolution mesh to transport the species and to calculate the geochemical equilibrium. Geochemical equilibrium being very sensitive to the concentration, preserving the fine heterogeneities leads to a more accurate field behavior simulation than conventional approach which consist in performing simulations on a coarser mesh. The method is applied to a simulation of CO2 storage in a geological model representing a fluvial deposit with a complex realistic architecture that keep a high resolution of the heterogeneities.