Stochastic Simulation of Cave systems in Reservoir Modeling.

@inproceedings{P309_Henrion,
 abstract = { Open cave systems in aquifer or collapsed paleocave systems in reservoir have a significant impact
on hydraulic behavior because heterogeneities such as fractures, conduits and caves, constitute high
permeability regions controlling fluid circulation. Exact location and geometry of these features are
tediously assessed due to lack of data and complexity of the underlying physical processes. This
paper proposes a new stochastic method to simulate possible location and geometry of cave system.
Because fractures form preferential flow path, and therefor, initiate the development of conduits by
dissolution processes, discrete fracture networks are first generated. A screening test is performed
to remove fractures wich are not likely to yield large karsts. The distance function to the resulting
fracture network is then computed. Finally, multiple realizations of distance cutoff values are generated
by sequential gaussian simulations, and used to discriminate between cave occurences and
host-rock. },
 author = { Henrion, Vincent AND Caumon, Guillaume AND Vitel, Sarah },
 booktitle = { Proc. 27th Gocad Meeting, Nancy },
 title = { Stochastic Simulation of Cave systems in Reservoir Modeling. },
 year = { 2007 }
}