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.
Parameter
Value
Mesh size
600 m by 600 m
Coordinates of wellbore location
(300 m, 300 m)
Wellbore radius
0.1 m
Water density
1000 kg/m3
Water viscosity
0.002 Pa·s
Water compressibility
Density of porous media
2350 kg/m2
Porosity of porous media
0.4
Permeability of porous media
Compressibility of porous media
Young’s modulus of porous media
15 GPa
Poisson’s ratio of porous media
0.25
Biot’s coefficient
1
Hydrostatic pressure in the wellbore
10.9 MPa
Pore pressure in the overpressured layer
13.6 MPa
Boundary condition for water flow
No flow Neumann boundary
Boundary condition for deformation
Fixed displacement
Simulation time for the induced shallow water flow