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Fluid and Thermal Dynamics in the Development of Unconventional Resources IV

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026 View: 581 Submit to Special Issue

Guest Editors

Prof. Yu Peng

Email: pengyu_frac@foxmail.com

Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China

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Research Interests: rock mechanics, heat and mass transfer, fracture mechanics, rheology, interdisciplinary application of mathematics, and numerical simulations related to oil & natural gas development.

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Dr. Zhenglan Li

Email: lizhenglanswpu@163.com

Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China

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Research Interests: enhanced oil recovery, reactive transport, carbonate acid stimulation, naturally fractured and vuggy reservoirs, Underground Hydrogen Storage (UHS), and Geological Carbon Sequestration.

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Dr. Cunqi Jia

Email: cunqijia@utexas.edu

Affiliation: Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 78712, United States

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Research Interests: development and application of compositional reservoir simulators, enhanced oil recovery, reactive transport, carbonate acid stimulation, naturally fractured and vuggy reservoirs.

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Summary

Further advancements in the exploitation of unconventional resources, such as tight gas, shale gas, shale oil, coalbed methane, and natural gas hydrate, are intimately connected to the investigation of related fluid-dynamics and thermal aspects. Especially in some complex engineering technologies, multi-phase and different flow-driving processes are involved at the same time. Studying these coupled behaviors together with heat and mass transfers is of great significance for improving the efficiency of unconventional resource development.


This special issue considers new theoretical and technological achievements in the development of unconventional resources. Its main goal is the provision of a high-level platform for sharing innovations and insights into this field.


We welcome all types of manuscripts, including original research articles, review articles, and perspectives. With respect to the above topics, original contributions are solicited from researchers in academia as well as industry working in areas including, but not limited to:
• Fluid-structure interaction in well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
• Multi-phase flow in hydraulic fractures and unconventional reservoirs
• Experimental study on multi-field and multi-phase processes
• Reservoir simulation and numerical modelling
• Fluid flow behaviors during drilling, production, and injection
• Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) with emphasis on related fluid dynamic aspects
• Mechanisms of fluid flow in porous media with water-rock interaction
• Heat and mass transfer phenomena during unconventional resources development


Keywords

Petroleum Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Numerical Simulation, Unconventional Resources

Published Papers


  • Open Access

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    Adaptive Optimization of Drainage Processes in High-Water-Cut Tight Gas Reservoirs

    Jiaming Cai, Xiongxiong Wang, Xianwen Wang, Zhengyan Zhao, Youliang Jia
    FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.22, No.3, 2026, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2026.078769
    (This article belongs to the Special Issue: Fluid and Thermal Dynamics in the Development of Unconventional Resources IV)
    Abstract To address the persistent challenge of dynamic mismatch between wellbore lifting capacity and reservoir fluid supply, and to establish a robust optimization framework for drainage operations in high-water-cut tight sandstone gas reservoirs, this study systematically investigates the graded optimization and dynamic adaptation of drainage gas recovery technologies. Production data from a representative tight gas field were first employed to forecast reservoir performance. The predictive reliability was rigorously validated through high-precision history matching, thereby providing a quantitatively consistent foundation for subsequent wellbore optimization. Building on this characterization, a coupled simulation framework was developed that integrates wellbore… More >

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    Adaptive Optimization of Drainage Processes in High-Water-Cut Tight Gas Reservoirs

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