Name
Abstract | ||
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Huge salt formations, trapping large untapped oil and gas reservoirs, lie in the deepwater region of the Gulf of Mexico. Drilling in this region is high-risk and drilling failures have led to well abandonments, with each costing tens of millions of dollars. Salt tectonics plays a central role in these failures. To explore the geomechanical interactions between salt and the surrounding sand and shale formations, scientists have simulated the stresses in and around salt diapirs in the Gulf of Mexico using nonlinear finite element geomechanical modeling. In this paper, we describe novel techniques developed to visualize the simulated subsurface stress field. We present an adaptation of the Mohr diagram, a traditional paper-and-pencil graphical method long used by the material mechanics community for estimating coordinate transformations for stress tensors, as a new tensor glyph for dynamically exploring tensor variables within three-dimensional finite element models. This interactive glyph can be used as either a probe or a filter through brushing and linking. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1109/TVCG.2005.86 | IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
deepwater region,interactive glyph,mohr diagrams,tensor glyph. —————————— � ——————————,tensor field visualization,new tensor glyph,drilling failure,index terms — geomechanical modeling,nonlinear finite element geomechanical,multiple coordinated views,geomechanical interaction,geologic stress,salt tectonics,simulated subsurface stress field,salt diapirs,huge salt formation,stress analysis,finite element analysis,data visualisation,mechanical engineering,finite element model,finite element,oil and gas,stress tensor,three dimensional,indexing terms,gas industry,geology,tensors | Diapir,Glyph,Stress field,Brushing and linking,Tensor,Computer science,Petroleum engineering,Finite element method,Theoretical computer science,Salt tectonics,Drilling | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
11 | 5 | 1077-2626 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
4 | 0.48 | 22 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patricia Crossno | 1 | 119 | 11.47 |
| David H. Rogers | 2 | 23 | 3.24 |
| Rebecca M. Brannon | 3 | 8 | 1.23 |
| David Coblentz | 4 | 7 | 1.22 |
| Joanne T Fredrich | 5 | 4 | 0.48 |