Workshop I: Multiphysics, Multiscale, and Coupled Problems in Subsurface Physics

Part of the Long Program Computational Issues in Oil Field Applications
April 3 - 7, 2017

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 3, 2017

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Thomas Hou (California Institute of Technology)

Multiscale Model Reduction and Sparse Operator Compression for Multiscale Problems
PDF Presentation

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Stephane Zaleski (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie))

The simulation of droplets, bubbles and interfaces
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

 
3:10 - 4:00
Shahriar Afkhami (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

From mesoscopic to macroscopic computations of dynamic contact lines
PDF Presentation

 
4:10 - 4:20 Break
4:20 - 5:10
Birol Dindoruk (Shell)

 

5:20 - 7:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Yalchin Efendiev (Texas A&M University - College Station)

Flow-based upscaling and generalized multiscale finite element methods for problems in heterogeneous media

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Patrick Farrell (University of Oxford)

 

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Konstantin Lipnikov (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Physics-preserving discretizations for subsurface flows
PDF Presentation

 
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Olav Møyner (SINTEF Applied Mathematics)

A multiscale restriction-smoothed basis method for high contrast porous media represented on unstructured grids
PDF Presentation

 
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 5:05
Andro Mikelic (Université Claude-Bernard (Lyon I))

Phase-field modeling of a fluid-driven fracture in a poroelastic medium
PDF Presentation

 

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Brice Lecampion (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

Hydraulic Fractures: Modeling and realities

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Mary Wheeler (University of Texas at Austin)

 
PDF Presentation

 
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Brad Mallison (Chevron)

 

 
3:05 - 3:55
4:05 - 4:15 Break
4:15 - 5:05

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Peter Sammon (Computer Modelling Group Ltd (CMG))

Some Aspects of Coupling Complex Wells and Networks to a Reservoir Simulator

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Hui Cao (Total)

Production system modeling from wells to surface facilities, and its coupling with reservoir

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:10 Break
3:10 - 4:00
Seong Lee (Chevron)

Hybrid discretization of multi-phase fluids in porous media in the presence of viscous, gravitational and capillary forces

4:10 - 4:20 Break
4:20 - 5:10
Jinchao Xu (Pennsylvania State University)

On the Lack of Accuracy of Semi-explicit Schemes for Phase-Field Simulations

 

Friday, April 7, 2017

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Knut­-Andreas Lie (SINTEF)

Fully implicit higher-order schemes applied to polymer flooding
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Rami Younis (University of Tulsa)

Adaptive solution methods for implicit and monolithic simulation