Patent ID: 8862443

Claim:
A method of generating geomechanical modeling input data, the method comprising: receiving finite difference (FD) grid data identifying: FD grid node locations in a subterranean region; and FD grid values of a subterranean formation property for each of the FD grid node locations; receiving finite element (FE) mesh data identifying FE mesh node locations in the subterranean region; calculating spatial domains about the FE mesh node locations, each of the spatial domains associated with one of the FE mesh node locations and calculated based on one or more other FE mesh node locations; generating FE mesh values of the subterranean formation property for the FE mesh node locations, the FE mesh value for each FE mesh node location generated based on the FD grid values for multiple FD grid node locations within the spatial domain about the FE mesh node location; and assigning the FE mesh values of the subterranean formation property to the FE mesh node locations for geomechanical modeling of the subterranean region.