Computing Energy Advancement: Computational Engineering for Geomechanics and Fracture

加拿大的能源行业在国内和国际上都受到推动变革的可持续发展和经济力量的威胁。这项研究计划将提供工具，以显着改善现有的技术，如水力压裂（HF）和推进新的地热能源和碳封存业务。 高速率脉冲注入到多孔和/或裂缝岩石提供了很大的潜力，然而，现有的模拟工具需要调整过程输入的复杂波行为的流体-岩石-裂缝系统是完全不够的。现有的分析工具不适当地忽略了（i）多孔介质和（ii）裂缝中的流体流动中的流体惯性和动量。此外，（iii）这些传统工具通常在计算上太昂贵（即，时间）在工业上的实际应用。 这个计算能源进步研究计划将开发新的计算工程（CE）工具，以创新加拿大能源部门地质力学和断裂过程的模拟技术。该计划的目标是开发：1）创新的数值方法模拟多孔岩石中的动态现象; 2）适用于非稳态和动态条件的新型裂缝流动和HF模型; 3）先进的技术，以克服许多多物理场地质力学模拟的计算困难。为了在仿真技术上取得这些必要的进步，必须实现所有这三个目标。该研究计划不仅将创造新的知识，理论和技术，还将为加拿大能源行业的未来提供高素质人才（HQP）的计算工程和地质力学方面的重要培训。该计划将支持6名博士生和10名本科生。研究将在公平和包容的环境中进行，在这种环境中，多元化的团队将通过在顶级期刊上发表HQP主导的手稿和在国际会议上发表演讲来调动知识。 这个计算能源进步研究计划的持续10年愿景是扩大CE的基础，以模拟多孔和天然断裂岩石中的热-水-力学过程，从而发现创新，优化和运营加拿大能源项目所需的新地质力学知识。该研究计划的目的是使加拿大的能源行业在运营上更加高效，并且越来越具有可持续性。

Canada's energy industry is under threat both domestically and internationally from sustainability and economic force which are propelling change. This research program will provide the tools to dramatically improve existing technologies like Hydraulic Fracturing (HF) and to advance new Geothermal Energy and Carbon Sequestration operations. High rate pulsing injection into porous and/or fractured rock offers great potential; however, the existing simulation tools needed to tune process inputs to the complex wave behavior of the fluid-rock-fracture system are completely inadequate. Existing analyses tools inappropriately neglect fluid inertia and momentum in (i) porous media and (ii) fluid flow in fractures. Furthermore, (iii) these traditional tools are often too expensive computationally (i.e., time) for practical use in industry. This Computing Energy Advancement research program will develop novel computational engineering (CE) tools to innovate simulation technology for geomechanics and fracture processes for Canada's energy sector. The objectives of this program are to develop: I) innovative numerical methods for the simulating dynamic phenomena in porous rock; 2) novel fracture flow and HF models suitable for non-steady and dynamics conditions; 3) advanced techniques to overcome the computational intractability of many multiphysics geomechanic simulations. To make these necessary advancements in simulation technology, all three of these objectives must be realized. Not only will this research program create new knowledge, theory, and technology, it will also provide vital training in computational engineering and geomechanics of highly qualified personnel (HQP) for the future of Canada's energy industry. This program will support 6 PhD and 10 undergraduate students. Research will be conducted in an equitable and inclusive environment in which the diverse team will mobilize knowledge through the publication of HQP-lead manuscripts in top-tier journals and presentations at international conferences. The on-going 10 year vision of this Computing Energy Advancement research program is to expand the foundations of CE needed to simulation of thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in both porous and naturally fractured rock to enable discovery the new geomechanics knowledge needed to innovate, optimize, and operate Canadian energy projects. The aims of this research program are to make Canada's energy industry operationally more efficient and increasingly more sustainable.