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Vertical compaction in a faulted sedimentary basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2003

Gérard Gagneux,
Roland Masson,
Anne Plouvier-Debaigt,
Guy Vallet and
Sylvie Wolf
Gérard Gagneux
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, BP 576, 64012 Pau Cedex, France. gerard.gagneux@univ-pau.fr., guy.vallet@univ-pau.fr.
Roland Masson
Affiliation:
Institut Français du Pétrole, 1 et 4 avenue de Bois-Préau, BP 311, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France. roland.masson@ifp.fr.
Anne Plouvier-Debaigt
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, BP 576, 64012 Pau Cedex, France. gerard.gagneux@univ-pau.fr., guy.vallet@univ-pau.fr.
Guy Vallet
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, BP 576, 64012 Pau Cedex, France. gerard.gagneux@univ-pau.fr., guy.vallet@univ-pau.fr.
Sylvie Wolf
Affiliation:
Institut Français du Pétrole, 1 et 4 avenue de Bois-Préau, BP 311, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison Cedex, France. roland.masson@ifp.fr.
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Abstract

In this paper, we consider a 2D mathematical modelling of the verticalcompaction effect in a water saturated sedimentary basin. This model isdescribed by the usual conservation laws, Darcy's law, the porosity as afunction of the vertical component of the effective stress and theKozeny-Carman tensor, taking into account fracturation effects. This modelleads to study the time discretization of a nonlinear system ofpartial differential equations. The existence is obtained by a fixed-pointargument. The uniqueness proof, by Holmgren's method, leads to work out a linear, strongly coupled, system of partial differential equations andboundary conditions.

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Porous mediavertical compactionsedimentary basinsfault lines modelling.

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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , March 2003, pp. 373 - 388
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2003

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