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Carbon, capture, and storage (CCS) is an important bridging technology to combat climate change in the transition towards net-zero. The FluidFlower concept has been developed to visualize and study CO$_2$ flow and storage mechanisms in…
This technical note describes the FluidFlower concept, a new laboratory infrastructure for geological carbon storage research. The highly controlled and adjustable system produces a strikingly visual physical ground truth of studied…
We present a history matching (HM) workflow applied to the International FluidFlower benchmark study dataset, which features high-resolution images of CO$_2$ storage in a meter-scale, geologically complex reservoir. The dataset provides…
The partial differential equations describing immiscible, but soluble, carbon dioxide (CO2) displacement of brine are developed including local mass-transfer effects. Scaling relationships for characteristic time among laboratory and…
An efficient compositional framework is developed for simulation of CO2 storage in saline aquifers during a full-cycle injection, migration and post-migration processes. Essential trapping mechanisms, including structural, dissolution, and…
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity simulations of fluid flows but remains computationally expensive for many-query applications. In recent years deep learning (DL) has been used to construct data-driven fluid-dynamic…
For quantum computing (QC) to emerge as a practically indispensable computational tool, there is a need for quantum protocols with an end-to-end practical applications -- in this instance, fluid dynamics. We debut here a high performance…
Cloud computing recently developed into a viable alternative to on-premises systems for executing high-performance computing (HPC) applications. With the emergence of new vendors and hardware options, there is now a growing need to…
Reliable hydrologic and flood forecasting requires models that remain stable when input data are delayed, missing, or inconsistent. However, most advances in rainfall-runoff prediction have been evaluated under ideal data conditions,…
Reservoir simulations for subsurface processes play an important role in successful deployment of geoscience applications such as geothermal energy extraction and geo-storage of fluids. These simulators provide time-laps dynamics of the…
The accuracy and robustness of numerical models of geologic CO$_2$ sequestration are almost never quantified with respect to direct observations that provide a ground truth. Here, we conduct CO$_2$ injection experiments in meter-scale,…
Due to the diversity of fuel cycle simulator modeling assumptions, direct comparison and benchmarking can be difficult. In 2012 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development completed a benchmark study that is perhaps the most…
A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation framework for fluid-flow prediction is developed on the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) platform. The TPU architecture is featured with accelerated dense matrix multiplication, large high…
CO2 injection into a saline aquifer crossed by a tectonic fault is studied with coupled fluid mechanics - geomechanics modeling. The simulation approach is based on coupling of the MUFITS reservoir simulator and the FLAC3D mechanical…
For large-scale scientific simulations, it is expensive to store raw simulation results to perform post-analysis. To minimize expensive I/O, "in-situ" analysis is often used, where analysis applications are tightly coupled with scientific…
This paper contributes to the development and evaluation of a deep learning workflow that accurately and efficiently predicts the temporal-spatial evolution of pressure and CO2 plumes during injection and post-injection periods of geologic…
Purpose: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are performed to investigate the impact of adding a grid to a two-inlet dry powder inhaler (DPI). The purpose of the paper is to show the importance of the correct choice of closure…
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations are a very important tool for many industrial applications, such as aerodynamic optimization of engineering designs like cars shapes, airplanes parts etc. The output of such simulations, in…
Designing large-scale geological carbon capture and storage projects and ensuring safe long-term CO2 containment - as a climate change mitigation strategy - requires fast and accurate numerical simulations. These simulations involve solving…
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…