this paper presents the application of radial basis neural networks to the development of a novel method for the condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of synchronous generators. in the proposed scheme, flux linkage analysis is used to reach a decision. probabilistic neural network (pnn) and discrete wavelet transform (dwt) are used in design of fault diagnosis system. pnn as main part of thi...

Determining flows and transfers in natural Discrete Fracture Networks (DFNs) receives more and more attention in applied geosciences, from oil and gas industry, geothermal recovery, to CO2 sequestration issues. Geological characterization of these DFN is becoming more and more accurate. So, accounting for the details of the flow inside the fracture network, and later modelling the transfers bet...

One of the current objectives of karst research is to understand the spatial dynamics of karstic processes that increase or decrease pore volume. Although we can construct 3D numerical models, it is a complex, multi-step process. These modelling approaches combine a dissolution algorithm, a flow and/or transport model and an algorithm to reconstruct the spatial geometry of fracture networks. Th...

This paper proposes a method for quantitative integration of seismic (elastic) anisotropy attributes with reservoir performance data as an aid in characterization of systems of natural fractures in hydrocarbon reservoirs. This method is demonstrated through application to history matching of reservoir performance using synthetic test cases. Discrete Feature Network (DFN) modeling (Dershowitz et...

This paper presents a modeling approach for studying hydro-mechanical coupled processes, including fracture development, within geological formations. This is accomplished through the novel linking of two codes: TOUGH2, which is a widely used simulator of subsurface multiphase flow based on the finite volume method; and an implementation of the Rigid-BodySpring Network (RBSN) method, which prov...

FRACK is a fractured media freeware flow and solute transport suite currently under development that is intended to serve as both a preand post-processor to MODFLOW. As a pre-processor, FRACK generates and maps networks of deterministic and/or stochastic fractures onto a regularly-spaced finitedifference grid, according to a fracture continuum method that closely approximates flow solutions to ...

Characterisation of the heterogeneous naturally fractured reservoirs is an essential and significantly challenging task, especially due to the limited data availability. This paper presents a foundation relationship between P-wave / S-wave velocity and formation resistivity for improved fracture characterisation. Rock matrix and fluid volumetrics are combined with the basic correspondence betwe...

In pressure sensitive reservoirs, interaction effects among the porous media flow field, the fracture field and the stress field can cause some specific flow characteristics entirely different from those in conventional reservoirs. Dynamic fracture behavior is one of them, which generates a change in the value of fracture aperture and even a variation in the anisotropy of permeability. In this ...