This dissertation presents a comparative study between two porous media fluid flow description methods applied to heterogeneous reservoirs composed of architectural elements of high permo-porosity, called fractures andkarsts. Fractures are formation discontinuities triggered by mechanical stressand karsts are empty cavities inside the formation generated by dissolution.Both are characteristic of Pre-Salt carbonate rocks, which are the main oil producing reservoirs in Brazil. The existence of these elements brings complexityin characterization and, hence, increases the uncertainty in field productionprediction curves. The Reservoir Engineering numerical simulators, based onfinite differences, that generate these curves model the flow behavior insidethe cavities in an approximate manner due to the mathematical formulationapplied. Besides, due to the kilometric scale in which they are usually applied,these models use cells that comprehend the three media (matrix, karst andfractures), whose scales are smaller than the cell’s. This dissertation evaluatesthe equivalence between black oil simulation and the Brinkman model, still notwidely used, which is a physical model made of equations that represent porousmedia flow inside high porosity regions as well as at the porous matrix andits boundaries. With this objective, a two-dimensional single-phase Brinkmansimulator, capable of representing transient flow, was designed using the finiteelements method to solve differential equations. The simulator s transient andpermanent behaviors were validated through literature analytical solutions.The pressure propagation and flow velocity values obtained while simulatingfluid flow inside selected layers from Lajedo Arapuá s carbonate formation werecompared to the ones from a black oil simulator. Studies were performed usingdual-continuum models (which calculate the fluid flow inside porous matrixand fractures separately and use a transfer term to account for the flow between them) seeking, through variation of the fracture effective permeabilityand the shape factor, convergence to the mono-continuum reference model thatwas selected after Brinkman s results comparative analysis. The results showsmall variation between the two methods when the karst system is composedof sparse and disconnected vugs, while conduit shaped karsts with complexconfiguration increase the variation in pressure wave propagation and flowvelocity values between models, especially in scenarios where matrix permeability values were closer to karst permeability values in the black oil model.The dual-continuum analysis showed that it is possible to obtain, through homogeneous and even ten times coarser models, similar results to those obtainedby a heterogeneous black oil model with karst system characterization. It wasalso possible to conclude that fracture effective permeability was sufficient asa fitting parameter in order to achieve equivalent results to those from themono-continuum model, using a threshold criteria.