Tuesday, April 9, 9:30 am in MTH 3206, University of Maryland,
College Park
Modeling and Simulation of Fluid Flow in Complex Porous Media
Prof. Alfio Quarteroni
Politecnico di Milano and CRS4 (Italy)
alfqua@ipmma1.mate.polimi.it
The development of mathematical models and simulation tools are
indispensable in the effort of quantitatively predict the phenomena
that take place during flow movement and contaminant transport in
complex porous media. This presentation aims to discuss some relevant
issues related to the mathematical and numerical modeling of flow in
porous media, with reference to petroleum engineering applications.
Various flow models are reviewed, ranging form model problems of
incompressible flow to a multi-phase, multi-component compressible
flow model with interphase mass transfer that covers most of
applications that are of current interest in the oil industry.
Discretization methods based on mixed finite elements and finite
volumes will be presented and discussed and several applications
on test problems as well as on realistic field-scale reservoir
simulation will be illustrated.
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