Meso-Scale Proppant Transport Models for Coalbed Methane Reservoirs

A 139 MB dataset provides geometric models and numerical simulation results from a validated Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) study. It investigates the coupled effects of realistic surface roughness and injection dynamics on proppant placement within complex fracture networks. These networks comprise hydraulic fractures, cleats, and bedding planes specific to deep coal reservoirs.

Use Cases

• Validating CFD-DEM models of particle-fluid interaction in fractures based on the provided simulation results.
• Analyzing proppant placement efficiency in networks with cleats and bedding planes using the geometric models.
• Studying the impact of fracture surface roughness on transport dynamics using the coupled simulation data.
• Benchmarking numerical simulations of meso-scale proppant transport in complex geological structures.

Strengths

• Dataset size is explicitly 139,267,219 bytes, indicating a substantial volume of simulation data.
• Uses a validated CFD-DEM approach, suggesting the underlying numerical methods are credible.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating open reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• Column names and row counts are unknown, limiting understanding of the data's internal structure.
• The dataset's provenance is limited to an author name; the associated organization is not specified.
• The future 'last updated' date of 2026-03-19 is anomalous and may indicate a metadata error.

Provenance

Source

Yujie Zhu

Collection Method

Generated from numerical simulations using a Computational Fluid Dynamics-Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM) approach.

Freshness

Last updated: 2026-03-19 16:13:52 (Note: This is a future date, which may be a metadata error).