It is well known that reservoir simulation studies are very subjective and vary from simulator to simulator. While SPE benchmarking has helped accept differences in predicting petroleum reservoir performance, there has been no scientific explanation behind the variability that has frustrated many policy makers and operations managers and puzzled scientists and engineers. In a recent book by the...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1ICube Laboratory, UMR CNRS 7357, 72, Route du Rhin, CS 315, F-67411, Illkirch CEDEX, France Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract Background: A two-dimensional numerical model is developed for the Soultz-sous-Forêts reservoir from an idealized cross-section containing six homogeneous horizontal layers. The consider...

Background Considerable effort has been devoted to the development of reservoir simulation tools for the oil industry, and there are high-quality simulators available that handle effectively many of the flow problems appropriate to oil and gas reservoirs. One area where simulator development is continuing, however, is in the simulation of processes in which multiple components transfer between ...

The ability to numerically simulate single phase and multiphase ow of uids in porous media is extremely important in developing an understanding of the complex phenomena governing the ow. The ow is complicated by the presence of heterogeneities in the reservoir at many diierent length scales and by phenomena such as diiusion and dispersion. These eeects must be eeectively modeled by terms in co...

In oil industry, recovery of crude oil can be improved by injecting aqueous solutions containing surfactants, polymers, and mineral ions into an oil reservoir. This process is called enhanced oil recovery. Water and oil are immiscible, separated by an interface, and their motion through a capillary tube is governed by the surface tension. However, the physics can be more complex during an enhan...

and release of active materials in applications such as drug delivery, food processing and cosmetics. Compared with the hydrodynamically controlled breakup of single-phase droplets in confined geometries, active ingredients have been released by breaking the encapsulating double emulsions 20 thermally or osmotically. In some applications, such as drug delivery and oil recovery, the encapsulatin...

Numerical simulation of uid ow in a hydrocarbon reservoir has to ac count for the presence of wells The pressure of a grid cell containing a well is di erent from the average pressure in that cell and di erent from the bottomhole pressure for the well Peaceman This paper presents a study of grid pressures obtained from the simulation of single phase ow through an isotropic porous medium using d...