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Type: Journal article
Title: A spatial clustering approach for stochastic fracture network modelling
Author: Seifollahi, S.
Dowd, P.
Xu, C.
Fadakar Alghalandis, Y.
Citation: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2014; 47(4):1225-1235
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
Issue Date: 2014
ISSN: 0723-2632
1434-453X
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S. Seifollahi, P. A. Dowd, C. Xu, A. Y. Fadakar
Abstract: Fracture network modelling plays an important role in many application areas in which the behaviour of a rock mass is of interest. These areas include mining, civil, petroleum, water and environmental engineering and geothermal systems modelling. The aim is to model the fractured rock to assess fluid flow or the stability of rock blocks. One important step in fracture network modelling is to estimate the number of fractures and the properties of individual fractures such as their size and orientation. Due to the lack of data and the complexity of the problem, there are significant uncertainties associated with fracture network modelling in practice. Our primary interest is the modelling of fracture networks in geothermal systems and, in this paper, we propose a general stochastic approach to fracture network modelling for this application. We focus on using the seismic point cloud detected during the fracture stimulation of a hot dry rock reservoir to create an enhanced geothermal system; these seismic points are the conditioning data in the modelling process. The seismic points can be used to estimate the geographical extent of the reservoir, the amount of fracturing and the detailed geometries of fractures within the reservoir. The objective is to determine a fracture model from the conditioning data by minimizing the sum of the distances of the points from the fitted fracture model. Fractures are represented as line segments connecting two points in two-dimensional applications or as ellipses in three-dimensional (3D) cases. The novelty of our model is twofold: (1) it comprises a comprehensive fracture modification scheme based on simulated annealing and (2) it introduces new spatial approaches, a goodness-of-fit measure for the fitted fracture model, a measure for fracture similarity and a clustering technique for proposing a locally optimal solution for fracture parameters. We use a simulated dataset to demonstrate the application of the proposed approach followed by a real 3D case study of the Habanero reservoir in the Cooper Basin, Australia. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Wien.
Keywords: Global optimization
Simulated annealing
Spatial clustering
Stochastic fracture network modelling
Conditional simulation
Rights: © Springer-Verlag Wien 2013
DOI: 10.1007/s00603-013-0456-x
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00603-013-0456-x
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