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This paper presents our work on designing scalable linear solvers for large-scale reservoir simulations. The main objective is to support implementation of parallel reservoir simulators on distributed-memory parallel systems, where MPI…
Subsurface simulations use computational models to predict the flow of fluids (e.g., oil, water, gas) through porous media. These simulations are pivotal in industrial applications such as petroleum production, where fast and accurate…
We consider a non-isothermal compositional gas liquid model for the simulation of well operations in geothermal processes. The model accounts for phase transitions assumed to be at thermodynamical equilibrium and is based on an…
The Open Porous Media (OPM) initiative is a community effort that encourages open innovation and reproducible research for simulation of porous media processes. OPM coordinates collaborative software development, maintains and distributes…
A numerical model and parallel software for 3D simulations of granular flows have been developed based on the Lagrangian particle (LP) method [R.Samulyak, X. Wang, H.-C. Chen, Lagrangian particle method for compressible fluid dynamics, J.…
Traditional computational fluid dynamics calculates the physical information of the flow field by solving partial differential equations, which takes a long time to calculate and consumes a lot of computational resources. We build a fluid…
We propose a neural physics system for real-time, interactive fluid simulations. Traditional physics-based methods, while accurate, are computationally intensive and suffer from latency issues. Recent machine-learning methods reduce…
Many applications involving porous media--notably reservoir engineering and geologic applications--involve tight coupling between multiphase fluid flow, transport, and poromechanical deformation. While numerical models for these processes…
Simulation is a powerful tool to better understand physical systems, but generally requires computationally expensive numerical methods. Downstream applications of such simulations can become computationally infeasible if they require many…
The modeling and simulation of multiphase fluid flow receive significant attention in reservoir engineering. Many time discretization schemes for multiphase flow equations are either explicit or semi-implicit, relying on the decoupling…
The numerical simulation of multiphase flows presents several challenges, namely the transport of different phases within de domain and the inclusion of capillary effects. Here, these are approached by enforcing a discrete…
The numerical simulation of fluid flow through a complex geometry with heat transfer is of strong interest for many applications, such as oil-filled power transformers. A fundamental challenge here is that high resolution is necessary to…
This work deals with numerical simulation of water freezing and thawing in a complex three-dimensional geometry of a porous medium. The porous structure is represented by a virtual container filled with glass beads. Phase transition…
Recent advances in reservoir simulation increasingly utilize hybrid approaches that couple physics-based simulators with machine-learning (ML) components. ML components offer high fidelity to training data and fast inference, enabling…
The numerical simulation of large-scale multiphase flow in porous media is of considerable importance across various application fields, particularly in the petroleum industry. The fully implicit method is preferred in reservoir simulations…
Simulating the flow of two fluid phases in porous media is a challenging task, especially when fractures are included in the simulation. Fractures may have highly heterogeneous properties compared to the surrounding rock matrix,…
The fracturing-flooding technology is a new process for the development of low-permeability oil reservoirs, achieving a series of successful applications in oilfield production. However, existing numerical simulation methods for pressure…
The computation time for reservoir simulation is dominated by the linear solver. The sets of linear equations which arise in reservoir simulation have two distinctive features: the problems are usually highly anisotropic, with a dominant…
A mathematical model for computation of the fluid pressure in a reservoir drained by a horizontal multiple fractured well is proposed. The model is applicable for an arbitrary network of fractures with different finite conductivities of…
This paper introduces a new discrete fracture model accounting for non-isothermal compositional multiphase Darcy flows and complex networks of fractures with intersecting, immersed and non immersed fractures. The so called…