Combined face based and nodal based discretizations on hybrid meshes for non-isothermal two-phase Darcy flow problems

International audienceIn the last 20 years many discretization schemes have been developed to approximate the Darcy fluxes on polyhedral cells in heterogeneous anisotropic porous media. Among them, we can distinguished cell based approaches like the Two Point Flux Approximation (TPFA) or the Multi Point Flux Approximation (MPFA) schemes, face based approaches like the Hybrid Finite Volume (HFV) scheme belonging to the family of Hybrid Mimetic Mixed methods and nodal based discretizations like the Vertex Approximate Gradient (VAG) scheme. They all have their own drawbacks and advantages which typically depend on the type of cells and on the anisotropy of the medium. In this work, we propose a new methodology to combine the VAG and HFV discretizations on arbitrary subsets of cells or faces in order to choose the best suited scheme in different parts of the mesh. In our approach the TPFA discretization is considered as an HFV discretization for which the face unknowns can be eliminated. The coupling strategy is based on a node to face interpolation operator at the interfaces which must be chosen to ensure the consistency, the coercivity and the limit conformity properties of the combined discretization. The convergence analysis is performed in the gradient discretization framework and convergence is proved for arbitrary cell or face partitions of the mesh. For face partitions, an additional stabilisation local to the cell is required to ensure the coercivity while for cell partitions no additional stabilisation is needed. The framework preserves at the interface the discrete conservation properties of the VAG and HFV schemes with fluxes based on local to each cell transmissibility matrices. This discrete conservative form allows to naturally extend the VAG and HFV discretizations of two- phase Darcy flow models to the combined VAG-HFV schemes. The efficiency of our approach is tested for single phase and immiscible two-phase Darcy flows on 3D meshes using a combination of the HFV and VAG discretizations as well as for non-isothermal compositional liquid gas Darcy flows on a 2D cut of the Bouillante geothermal reservoir using a combination of the TPFA and VAG discretizations

Non-isothermal compositional liquid gas Darcy flow: formulation, soil-atmosphere boundary condition and application to high energy geothermal simulations

International audienceThis article deals with the modelling and formulation of compositional gas liquid Darcy flow. Our model includes an advanced boundary condition at the interface between the porous medium and the atmosphere accounting for convective mass and energy transfer, liquid evaporation and liquid outflow. The formulation is based on a fixed set of unknowns whatever the set of present phases. The thermody-namic equilibrium is expressed as complementary constraints. The model and its formulation are applied to the simulation of the Bouillante high energy geothermal field in Guadeloupe characterized by a high temperature close to the surface

Non-isothermal Compositional Two-Phase Darcy Flow: Formulation and Outflow Boundary Condition

International audienceThis article deals with the modelling and formulation of compositional gasliquid Darcy flow. Our model includes an advanced boundary condition at the interface between the porous medium and the atmosphere accounting for convective mass and energy transfer, liquid evaporation, and liquid outflow. The formulation is based on a fixed set of unknowns whatever the set of present phases. The thermodynamical equilibrium is expressed as complementary constraints. The model and its formulation are applied to the simulation of the Bouillante high energy geothermal field in Guadeloupe characterized by a high temperature closed to the surface

Simulation d'écoulements compositionnels thermiques. Applications à la géothermie haute énergie.

International audienceSimulation d'écoulements compositionnels thermiques. Applications à la géothermie haute énergie

Numerical simulation of non-isothermal compositional two-phase flows in porous media and its applications to high energy geothermy

La compréhension des écoulements souterrains est importante pour de nombreuses applications comme l’énergie ou le stockage des déchets nucléaires. Cette thèse, effectuée en collaboration avec le Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), est dédiée à la simulation des écoulements diphasiques compositionnels thermiques en milieux poreux et ses applications à la géothermie haute énergie et plus particulièrement au champ géothermique de Bouillante (Guadeloupe). Tout d’abord, deux formulations à variables persistantes sont comparées en termes d’implémentation et de convergence numérique. Dans ces deux formulations, les fractions molaires d’une phase absente sont étendues par celles à l’équilibre thermodynamique avec la phase présente. Il en résulte que l’ensemble des variables principales et des équations ne dépend pas de l’ensemble de phases présentes. De plus, l’équilibre thermodynamique est exprimé par une contrainte de complémentarité pour chacune des phases, ce qui permet l’utilisation de méthodes de type semi-smooth Newton pour résoudre les systèmes non-linéaires. D’autre part, cette thèse présente une nouvelle méthodologie combinant des discrétisations centrées aux noeuds (le schéma Vertex Approximate Gradient - VAG) et aux faces (le schéma Hybrid Finite Volume - HFV) sur une partition arbitraire des ensembles de mailles ou de faces, dans le but d’adapter le choix du schéma aux différentes parties du maillage. En effet, les maillages hybrides composés de différents types de mailles sont plus adaptés à la discrétisation de la géologie et de la géométrie des différents domaines d’un système géothermique. Ainsi le schéma peut être choisi localement en fonction de la géométrie de la maille et des propriétés pétrophysiques. L’analyse de convergence est effectuée dans le cadre des discrétisations Gradient pour des problèmes de diffusion du second ordre et la convergence est confirmée numériquement sur différents types de maillages hybrides 3D. Ensuite la discrétisation VAG-HFV est étendue au cas des écoulements de Darcy diphasiques non-isothermes compositionnels et est appliquée au cas test 2D représentant le plan de faille vertical du réservoir géothermique de Bouillante. Un autre aspect important de la modélisation des flux géothermiques consiste à prendre en compte les interactions entre le flux dans le milieu poreux et l’atmosphère. Puisque le couplage entre le modèle poreux et un modèle 2D surfacique ou 3D atmosphérique n’est pas réaliste en terme de coût de calcul aux échelles spatiale et temporelle géologiques, l’interaction sol-atmosphère est modélisée grâce à une condition limite prenant en compte l’équilibre de matière et d’énergie à l’interface. Ce modèle considère une couche limite atmosphérique avec transfert convectif molaire et thermique (en supposant l’évaporation de la phase liquide), une condition de débordement liquide aux surfaces d’infiltration, ainsi que le rayonnement thermique et la recharge en eau douce due aux précipitations. Cette condition limite est évaluée à l’aide d’une solution de référence couplant les écoulements non-isothermes liquide-gaz en milieu poreux et le gaz dans le milieu libre. Elle est ensuite étudiée numériquement en terme de convergence et de solution sur des cas tests géothermiques, dont le plan de faille vertical du réservoir géothermique de Bouillante. En complément est présenté le travail issu d’une collaboration lors de l’école d’été du CEMRACS 2016. Le projet consistait à ajouter un modèle de puits multi-branche thermique au code ComPASS, un nouveau simulateur géothermique parallèle basé sur des maillages non-structurés avec la possibilité de représenter des fractures.The study of the subsurface flows is important for various applications such as energy or nuclear waste storage. This thesis, performed in collaboration with the French Geological Survey (BRGM), is dedicated to the simulation of non-isothermal compositional two-phase flows in porous media and its applications to high-energy geothermal fields and more precisely to the Bouillante field (Guadeloupe, French West Indies). First of all, two persistent variable formulations are compared in terms of implementation and numerical convergence. In these two formulations, the choice of the principal variables is based on with the extension of the phase molar fractions by the one at thermodynamic equilibrium with the present phase. It results that the set of principal variables and equations does not depend on the set of present phases. It also has the advantage to express the thermodynamic equilibrium as complementarity constraints, which allows the use of semi-smooth Newton methods to solve the non-linear systems. Moreover, this thesis presents a new methodology to combine a node-centered discretization (the Vertex Approximate Gradient scheme - VAG) and a face-centered discretization (the Hybrid Finite Volume scheme - HFV) on arbitrary subsets of cells or faces in order to choose the best-suited scheme in different parts of the mesh. Indeed, hybrid meshes composed of different types of cells are best suited to discretize the geology and geometry of the different parts of the geothermal system. Then, the scheme is adapted locally to the type of mesh/ cells and to petrophysical properties. The convergence analysis is performed in the gradient discretization framework over second order diffusion problems and the convergence is checked numerically on various types of hybrid three-dimensional meshes. Then, the VAG-HFV discretization is extended to non-isothermal compositional liquid-gas Darcy flows and is applied on the two dimensional cross-section of the Bouillante high temperature geothermal reservoir. Another important aspect of the geothermal flows modelling consists in considering the interactions between the porous medium and the atmosphere. Since the coupling between the porous medium and the 2D surface of 3D atmospheric flows is not computationally realistic at the space and time scales of a geothermal flow, the soil-atmosphere interaction is modelled using an advanced boundary condition accounting for the matter (mole) and energy balance at the interface. The model considers an atmospheric boundary layer with convective molar and energy transfers (assuming the vaporization of the liquid phase in the atmosphere), a liquid outflow condition at seepage surfaces, as well as the heat radiation and the precipitation influx. This boundary condition is assessed using a reference solution coupling the Darcy flow to a full-dimensional gas free flow. Then, it is studied numerically in terms of solution and convergence of the Newton-min non-linear solvers on several geothermal test cases including two-dimensional simulations of the Bouillante geothermal field. In addition is presented the collaborative project which took place during the CEMRACS summer school 2016. The project consisted in adding a multibranch thermal well model into the ComPASS code, a new geothermal simulator based on unstructured meshes and adapted to parallel distributed architectures with the ability to represent fractures

Numerical simulation of non-isothermal compositional two-phase flows in porous media and its applications to high energy geothermy

La compréhension des écoulements souterrains est importante pour de nombreuses applications comme l’énergie ou le stockage des déchets nucléaires. Cette thèse, effectuée en collaboration avec le Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), est dédiée à la simulation des écoulements diphasiques compositionnels thermiques en milieux poreux et ses applications à la géothermie haute énergie et plus particulièrement au champ géothermique de Bouillante (Guadeloupe). Tout d’abord, deux formulations à variables persistantes sont comparées en termes d’implémentation et de convergence numérique. Dans ces deux formulations, les fractions molaires d’une phase absente sont étendues par celles à l’équilibre thermodynamique avec la phase présente. Il en résulte que l’ensemble des variables principales et des équations ne dépend pas de l’ensemble de phases présentes. De plus, l’équilibre thermodynamique est exprimé par une contrainte de complémentarité pour chacune des phases, ce qui permet l’utilisation de méthodes de type semi-smooth Newton pour résoudre les systèmes non-linéaires. D’autre part, cette thèse présente une nouvelle méthodologie combinant des discrétisations centrées aux noeuds (le schéma Vertex Approximate Gradient - VAG) et aux faces (le schéma Hybrid Finite Volume - HFV) sur une partition arbitraire des ensembles de mailles ou de faces, dans le but d’adapter le choix du schéma aux différentes parties du maillage. En effet, les maillages hybrides composés de différents types de mailles sont plus adaptés à la discrétisation de la géologie et de la géométrie des différents domaines d’un système géothermique. Ainsi le schéma peut être choisi localement en fonction de la géométrie de la maille et des propriétés pétrophysiques. L’analyse de convergence est effectuée dans le cadre des discrétisations Gradient pour des problèmes de diffusion du second ordre et la convergence est confirmée numériquement sur différents types de maillages hybrides 3D. Ensuite la discrétisation VAG-HFV est étendue au cas des écoulements de Darcy diphasiques non-isothermes compositionnels et est appliquée au cas test 2D représentant le plan de faille vertical du réservoir géothermique de Bouillante. Un autre aspect important de la modélisation des flux géothermiques consiste à prendre en compte les interactions entre le flux dans le milieu poreux et l’atmosphère. Puisque le couplage entre le modèle poreux et un modèle 2D surfacique ou 3D atmosphérique n’est pas réaliste en terme de coût de calcul aux échelles spatiale et temporelle géologiques, l’interaction sol-atmosphère est modélisée grâce à une condition limite prenant en compte l’équilibre de matière et d’énergie à l’interface. Ce modèle considère une couche limite atmosphérique avec transfert convectif molaire et thermique (en supposant l’évaporation de la phase liquide), une condition de débordement liquide aux surfaces d’infiltration, ainsi que le rayonnement thermique et la recharge en eau douce due aux précipitations. Cette condition limite est évaluée à l’aide d’une solution de référence couplant les écoulements non-isothermes liquide-gaz en milieu poreux et le gaz dans le milieu libre. Elle est ensuite étudiée numériquement en terme de convergence et de solution sur des cas tests géothermiques, dont le plan de faille vertical du réservoir géothermique de Bouillante. En complément est présenté le travail issu d’une collaboration lors de l’école d’été du CEMRACS 2016. Le projet consistait à ajouter un modèle de puits multi-branche thermique au code ComPASS, un nouveau simulateur géothermique parallèle basé sur des maillages non-structurés avec la possibilité de représenter des fractures.The study of the subsurface flows is important for various applications such as energy or nuclear waste storage. This thesis, performed in collaboration with the French Geological Survey (BRGM), is dedicated to the simulation of non-isothermal compositional two-phase flows in porous media and its applications to high-energy geothermal fields and more precisely to the Bouillante field (Guadeloupe, French West Indies). First of all, two persistent variable formulations are compared in terms of implementation and numerical convergence. In these two formulations, the choice of the principal variables is based on with the extension of the phase molar fractions by the one at thermodynamic equilibrium with the present phase. It results that the set of principal variables and equations does not depend on the set of present phases. It also has the advantage to express the thermodynamic equilibrium as complementarity constraints, which allows the use of semi-smooth Newton methods to solve the non-linear systems. Moreover, this thesis presents a new methodology to combine a node-centered discretization (the Vertex Approximate Gradient scheme - VAG) and a face-centered discretization (the Hybrid Finite Volume scheme - HFV) on arbitrary subsets of cells or faces in order to choose the best-suited scheme in different parts of the mesh. Indeed, hybrid meshes composed of different types of cells are best suited to discretize the geology and geometry of the different parts of the geothermal system. Then, the scheme is adapted locally to the type of mesh/ cells and to petrophysical properties. The convergence analysis is performed in the gradient discretization framework over second order diffusion problems and the convergence is checked numerically on various types of hybrid three-dimensional meshes. Then, the VAG-HFV discretization is extended to non-isothermal compositional liquid-gas Darcy flows and is applied on the two dimensional cross-section of the Bouillante high temperature geothermal reservoir. Another important aspect of the geothermal flows modelling consists in considering the interactions between the porous medium and the atmosphere. Since the coupling between the porous medium and the 2D surface of 3D atmospheric flows is not computationally realistic at the space and time scales of a geothermal flow, the soil-atmosphere interaction is modelled using an advanced boundary condition accounting for the matter (mole) and energy balance at the interface. The model considers an atmospheric boundary layer with convective molar and energy transfers (assuming the vaporization of the liquid phase in the atmosphere), a liquid outflow condition at seepage surfaces, as well as the heat radiation and the precipitation influx. This boundary condition is assessed using a reference solution coupling the Darcy flow to a full-dimensional gas free flow. Then, it is studied numerically in terms of solution and convergence of the Newton-min non-linear solvers on several geothermal test cases including two-dimensional simulations of the Bouillante geothermal field. In addition is presented the collaborative project which took place during the CEMRACS summer school 2016. The project consisted in adding a multibranch thermal well model into the ComPASS code, a new geothermal simulator based on unstructured meshes and adapted to parallel distributed architectures with the ability to represent fractures

Simulation numérique d'écoulements diphasiques compositionnels thermiques en milieux poreux et ses applications à la géothermie haute énergie

The study of the subsurface flows is important for various applications such as energy or nuclear waste storage. This thesis, performed in collaboration with the French Geological Survey (BRGM), is dedicated to the simulation of non-isothermal compositional two-phase flows in porous media and its applications to high-energy geothermal fields and more precisely to the Bouillante field (Guadeloupe, French West Indies). First of all, two persistent variable formulations are compared in terms of implementation and numerical convergence. In these two formulations, the choice of the principal variables is based on with the extension of the phase molar fractions by the one at thermodynamic equilibrium with the present phase. It results that the set of principal variables and equations does not depend on the set of present phases. It also has the advantage to express the thermodynamic equilibrium as complementarity constraints, which allows the use of semi-smooth Newton methods to solve the non-linear systems. Moreover, this thesis presents a new methodology to combine a node-centered discretization (the Vertex Approximate Gradient scheme - VAG) and a face-centered discretization (the Hybrid Finite Volume scheme - HFV) on arbitrary subsets of cells or faces in order to choose the best-suited scheme in different parts of the mesh. Indeed, hybrid meshes composed of different types of cells are best suited to discretize the geology and geometry of the different parts of the geothermal system. Then, the scheme is adapted locally to the type of mesh/ cells and to petrophysical properties. The convergence analysis is performed in the gradient discretization framework over second order diffusion problems and the convergence is checked numerically on various types of hybrid three-dimensional meshes. Then, the VAG-HFV discretization is extended to non-isothermal compositional liquid-gas Darcy flows and is applied on the two dimensional cross-section of the Bouillante high temperature geothermal reservoir. Another important aspect of the geothermal flows modelling consists in considering the interactions between the porous medium and the atmosphere. Since the coupling between the porous medium and the 2D surface of 3D atmospheric flows is not computationally realistic at the space and time scales of a geothermal flow, the soil-atmosphere interaction is modelled using an advanced boundary condition accounting for the matter (mole) and energy balance at the interface. The model considers an atmospheric boundary layer with convective molar and energy transfers (assuming the vaporization of the liquid phase in the atmosphere), a liquid outflow condition at seepage surfaces, as well as the heat radiation and the precipitation influx. This boundary condition is assessed using a reference solution coupling the Darcy flow to a full-dimensional gas free flow. Then, it is studied numerically in terms of solution and convergence of the Newton-min non-linear solvers on several geothermal test cases including two-dimensional simulations of the Bouillante geothermal field. In addition is presented the collaborative project which took place during the CEMRACS summer school 2016. The project consisted in adding a multibranch thermal well model into the ComPASS code, a new geothermal simulator based on unstructured meshes and adapted to parallel distributed architectures with the ability to represent fractures.La compréhension des écoulements souterrains est importante pour de nombreuses applications comme l’énergie ou le stockage des déchets nucléaires. Cette thèse, effectuée en collaboration avec le Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), est dédiée à la simulation des écoulements diphasiques compositionnels thermiques en milieux poreux et ses applications à la géothermie haute énergie et plus particulièrement au champ géothermique de Bouillante (Guadeloupe). Tout d’abord, deux formulations à variables persistantes sont comparées en termes d’implémentation et de convergence numérique. Dans ces deux formulations, les fractions molaires d’une phase absente sont étendues par celles à l’équilibre thermodynamique avec la phase présente. Il en résulte que l’ensemble des variables principales et des équations ne dépend pas de l’ensemble de phases présentes. De plus, l’équilibre thermodynamique est exprimé par une contrainte de complémentarité pour chacune des phases, ce qui permet l’utilisation de méthodes de type semi-smooth Newton pour résoudre les systèmes non-linéaires. D’autre part, cette thèse présente une nouvelle méthodologie combinant des discrétisations centrées aux noeuds (le schéma Vertex Approximate Gradient - VAG) et aux faces (le schéma Hybrid Finite Volume - HFV) sur une partition arbitraire des ensembles de mailles ou de faces, dans le but d’adapter le choix du schéma aux différentes parties du maillage. En effet, les maillages hybrides composés de différents types de mailles sont plus adaptés à la discrétisation de la géologie et de la géométrie des différents domaines d’un système géothermique. Ainsi le schéma peut être choisi localement en fonction de la géométrie de la maille et des propriétés pétrophysiques. L’analyse de convergence est effectuée dans le cadre des discrétisations Gradient pour des problèmes de diffusion du second ordre et la convergence est confirmée numériquement sur différents types de maillages hybrides 3D. Ensuite la discrétisation VAG-HFV est étendue au cas des écoulements de Darcy diphasiques non-isothermes compositionnels et est appliquée au cas test 2D représentant le plan de faille vertical du réservoir géothermique de Bouillante. Un autre aspect important de la modélisation des flux géothermiques consiste à prendre en compte les interactions entre le flux dans le milieu poreux et l’atmosphère. Puisque le couplage entre le modèle poreux et un modèle 2D surfacique ou 3D atmosphérique n’est pas réaliste en terme de coût de calcul aux échelles spatiale et temporelle géologiques, l’interaction sol-atmosphère est modélisée grâce à une condition limite prenant en compte l’équilibre de matière et d’énergie à l’interface. Ce modèle considère une couche limite atmosphérique avec transfert convectif molaire et thermique (en supposant l’évaporation de la phase liquide), une condition de débordement liquide aux surfaces d’infiltration, ainsi que le rayonnement thermique et la recharge en eau douce due aux précipitations. Cette condition limite est évaluée à l’aide d’une solution de référence couplant les écoulements non-isothermes liquide-gaz en milieu poreux et le gaz dans le milieu libre. Elle est ensuite étudiée numériquement en terme de convergence et de solution sur des cas tests géothermiques, dont le plan de faille vertical du réservoir géothermique de Bouillante. En complément est présenté le travail issu d’une collaboration lors de l’école d’été du CEMRACS 2016. Le projet consistait à ajouter un modèle de puits multi-branche thermique au code ComPASS, un nouveau simulateur géothermique parallèle basé sur des maillages non-structurés avec la possibilité de représenter des fractures

ParaSkel++: a C++ platform for the high-performance, arbitrary-order, 2/3D numerical approximation of PDEs on general polytopal meshes using skeletal Galerkin methods

Skeletal Galerkin methods are a vast family of numerical methods for the approximation of PDE-based models that satisfy the following two building principles: (1) the degrees of freedom (DOF) of the method split into (i) skeleton DOF, attached to the geometric entities (vertices, edges, faces) composing the mesh skeleton and common to all cells sharing the geometric entity in question, which prescribe the conformity properties of the underlying discrete functional space, and (ii) bulk DOF (if need be), attached to the interior of the cells, which play no role in the prescription of the conformity properties of the underlying discrete functional space; (2) the global discrete bilinear form of the problem (potentially after linearization, if the problem is nonlinear) writes as the sum over the mesh cells of cell-wise (referred to as local) bilinear contributions. The very structure underpinning skeletal methods grants them the property of being amenable to static condensation, i.e. locally to each cell, bulk DOF can be eliminated in terms of the local skeleton DOF by means of a Schur complement. The final global system to solve thus writes in terms of the skeleton DOF only. The skeletal family encompasses in particular standard FE methods and virtual-like Galerkin methods (VEM, HHO, HDG...). It does not contain (plain vanilla) DG methods. The ParaSkel++ platform offers a high-performance factorized C++ architecture for the implementation of arbitrary-order skeletal methods on general 2/3D polytopal meshes

Mixed and Nitsche's discretizations of frictional contact-mechanics in fractured porous media

International audienceThis work deals with the discretization of single-phase Darcy flows in fractured and deformable porous media, including frictional contact at the matrix-fracture interfaces. Fractures are described as a network of planar surfaces leading to so-called mixed dimensional models. Small displacements and a linear poro-elastic behavior are considered in the matrix. One key difficulty to simulate such coupled poro-mechanical models is related to the formulation and discretization of the contact mechanical sub-problem. Our starting point is based on the mixed formulation using facewise constant Lagrange multipliers along the fractures representing normal and tangential stresses. This is a natural choice for the discretization of the contact dual cone in order to account for complex fracture networks with corners and intersections. It leads to local expressions of the contact conditions and to efficient semi-smooth nonlinear solvers. On the other hand, such a mixed formulation requires to satisfy a compatibility condition between the discrete spaces restricting the choice of the displacement space and potentially leading to sub-optimal accuracy. This motivates the investigation of two alternative formulations based either on a stabilized mixed formulation or on the Nitsche's method. These three types of formulations are first investigated theoretically in order to enhance their connections. Then, they are compared numerically in terms of accuracy and nonlinear convergence on a coupled poromechanical model

Mixed and Nitsche's discretizations of Coulomb frictional contact-mechanics for mixed dimensional poromechanical models

This work deals with the discretization of single-phase Darcy flows in fractured and deformable porous media, including frictional contact at the matrix-fracture interfaces. Fractures are described as a network of planar surfaces leading to so-called mixed-dimensional models. Small displacements and a linear poro-elastic behavior are considered in the matrix. One key difficulty to simulate such coupled poro-mechanical models is related to the formulation and discretization of the contact mechanical sub-problem. Our starting point is based on the mixed formulation using facewise constant Lagrange multipliers along the fractures representing normal and tangential stresses. This is a natural choice for the discretization of the contact dual cone in order to account for complex fracture networks with corners and intersections. It leads to local expressions of the contact conditions and to efficient semi-smooth nonlinear solvers. On the other hand, such a mixed formulation requires to satisfy a compatibility condition between the discrete spaces restricting the choice of the displacement space and potentially leading to sub-optimal accuracy. This motivates the investigation of two alternative formulations based either on a stabilized mixed formulation or on the Nitsche's method. These three types of formulations are first investigated theoritically in order to enhance their connections. Then, they are compared numerically in terms of accuracy and nonlinear convergence. The sensitivity to the choice of the formulation parameters is also investigated. Several 2D test cases are considered with various fracture networks using both P1 and P2 conforming Finite Element discretizations of the displacement field and an Hybrid Finite Volume discretization of the mixed-dimensional Darcy flow model