Research Article

A Parametric Study of Coupled Hydromechanical Behaviors Induced by Shallow Water Flow in Shallow Sediments in Deepwater Drilling Based on Numerical Modeling

Table 3

Parameters for the base case of the numerical study.

ParameterValue

Mesh size600 m by 600 m
Coordinates of wellbore location(300 m, 300 m)
Wellbore radius0.1 m
Water density1000 kg/m3
Water viscosity0.002 Pa·s
Water compressibility
Density of porous media2350 kg/m2
Porosity of porous media0.4
Permeability of porous media
Compressibility of porous media
Young’s modulus of porous media15 GPa
Poisson’s ratio of porous media0.25
Biot’s coefficient1
Hydrostatic pressure in the wellbore10.9 MPa
Pore pressure in the overpressured layer13.6 MPa
Boundary condition for water flowNo flow Neumann boundary
Boundary condition for deformationFixed displacement
Simulation time for the induced shallow water flow1 day