Abstract
The study of gas flow within porous media, particularly those characterized by complex pore-fracture networks, is critical for applications in fields such as shale gas engineering, gas extraction, and hydrogeology. This paper proposes a convenient and novel peridynamics approach to describe gas flow behavior in fracture regions and transition regions between fractured and intact regions in porous media, where the bonds naturally describe the interactions between material points in damaged areas. For implementation, we interpolate the permeability of the bonds in the transition region by using local damage values, and adopt a meshfree discretization approach that does not require additional mesh refinement for damaged or fractured regions. Numerical examples are provided and compared with the traditional finite element method to verify the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed method.
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