Modern petroleum and petrotechnical engineering is increasingly challenging due to the inherently scarce and decreasing number of global petroleum resources. Exploiting these resources efficiently will require researchers, scientists, engineers and other practitioners to develop innovative mathematical solutions to serve as basis for new asset development designs. Deploying these systems in numerical models is essential to the future success and efficiency of the petroleum industry.

Multiphysics modeling has been widely applied in the petroleum industry since the 1960s. The rapid...

Hydraulic fracturing is a powerful common technique used to improve the intrinsic permeability of porous rocks in different types of productive reservoirs. It is not only used in development of shale gas, tight oil, and coal bed methane resources, but also in development of geothermal resources etc.
This book presents 3D numerical solutions to the following problems of which hydraulic fracturing is a major content: Optimized value of stage-interval for multistage fracturing and optimized value of well spacing for a pair of zipper-frac wells;
Wellbore trajectory optimization for...