Patents by Inventor Luca Cosentino

Luca Cosentino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6922662
    Abstract: A method for modelling flows in a fractured medium crossed by a network of fluid conducting objects of definite geometry but not homogenizable on the scale of each grid cell of the model (large fractures, sub-seismic faults for example, very permeable sedimentary layers, etc.) which has an application in the evaluation of hydrocarbon reservoirs is disclosed. The method allows simulation fluid of flows in a fractured porous geologic medium of known structure that is discretized with a grid and modelled by considering that each elementary volume of the fractured geologic medium is an equivalent fracture medium and matrix medium on the scale of each cell between which fluid exchanges are determined. The method determines exchanges between the matrix medium and the fracture medium, and modeles the transmissivities of the various cells crossed by each conducting object, so that the resulting transmissivity corresponds to the direct transmissivity along each conducting object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Emmanuel Manceau, Sylvain Sarda, Luca Cosentino, Marie-Christine Cacas, Bernard Bourbiaux
  • Publication number: 20020016702
    Abstract: Method for modelling flows in a fractured medium crossed by a network of fluid conducting objects of definite geometry but not homogenizable on the scale of each grid cell of the model (large fractures, sub-seismic faults for example, very permeable sedimentary layers, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventors: Emmanuel Manceau, Sylvain Sarda, Luca Cosentino, Marie-Christine Cacas, Bernard Bourbiaux