The presence of natural fractures in the subsurface makes the activity of the oil well extremely difficult.

One of the most critical functions for drilling mud is to maintain the bottom hole pressure in a well to
prevent invasions of undesirable high-pressure influxes (oil / gas / water), which can lead to a significant
mud loss in the formation of a well and thus to an adverse effect on the integrity of pressurized water.
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a thesis on fluid flow through natural fractures through
computer fluid dynamics (CFD), which will provide an integrated understanding of flow in fractured
media. The analysis was conducted using an ANSYS (Fluent) 3-dimensional stable CFD model. The model
describes fracture as an empty space between two circular disks for simplicity and validation purposes.
In addition, single-phase fluid is known to flow through fractures. Correlations for determining the width
and invasion radius of the fractures for special mud-rheological properties were defined by resolving the
flow equations in the model. A similar association can be formed with knowledge of the rheological
properties of drilling fluid before drilling starts and after the loss of circulation, which are of great help
to take immediate action during loss of circulation, i.e. determination of the size of lost circulatory
particles and are also useful at a well developmental stage in the determination of the area affected.