Ali H. Dogru, Visiting Scientist
| Jan/21 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Subsequent meeting times may change. |
| Jan/22 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/23 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/24 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/27 | Mon | 01:00PM-03:00PM | TBA, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/28 | Tue | 01:00PM-03:00PM | TBA, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/29 | Wed | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/30 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Time subject to change. |
| Jan/31 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | Room 33-419, Time subject to change. |
Enrollment: Advance sign-up recommended as space is limited.
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
Prereq: 2.25, 16.910J or 16.920J
Reservoir simulation is a key technology in the oil and gas industry. Primarily, it is used to manage oil and gas production from the existing reservoirs, estimating reserves, predicting future production (income), making decisions where to drill, how many wells to drill, size of the separation plants (cost). Reservoir simulators are also used in designing production strategies for the new fields.
A reservoir simulator is scientific software running hardware from a cell phone or to a supercomputer. It is composed of a set of nonlinear coupled partial differential equations describing multi-phase, multi component compressible fluid flow in porous media and associated pipeline networks. This workshop describes the relevant PDEs constituting the simulator, thermodynamics constraints and rock fluid interaction relationships and the discretization of the PDEs. The size of the system can vary from a few unknowns to billions of unknowns. Sparse linear solvers to solve the resulting large linear system of equations are discussed.
The workshop is hands on and interactive. Students are expected to write computer programs on their own or in groups and discuss the findings in class. No specific computer language is required. At the end of the workshop, students learn how to write a three-dimensional multi-phase, multi-component reservoir simulator with production and injection wells. The activity is offered through the first week of February.
Sponsor(s): Aeronautics and Astronautics
Contact: Prof. David Darmofal, darmofal@mit.edu