Transcripción del resumen del autor The objectives of this paper are (1) to present experimental data from our current laboratory studies of high flow rates through proppant packs and (2) develop mathematical-modeling tools to quantify such high-flow-velocity, non-Darcy-flow behavior. Our experimental results show that non-Darcy flow occurs at high flow rates and that the conventional Forchheimer model may not be sufficient to describe the observed high-flow-rate behavior. On the other hand, the Barree and Conway (2004) flow model is found to be able to match the entire range of observed data from low to high flow rates. The modeling tools developed include both analytical and numerical approaches for simulating single-phase non-Darcy flow with the Barree and Conway model. In addition, the numerical model is used to perform parameter-sensitivity analysis and to obtain insight into transient non-Darcy flow with the Barree and Conway flow model.

1