The full-domain “sweep,” in which all angular fluxes in a problem are calculated given previous-iterate values only for the volumetric source, forms the foundation for many iterative methods that have desirable properties [1]. One important property is that iteration counts do not grow with mesh refinement [1]. The sweep solution on parallel machines is complicated by the dependency of a given ...

Microbial plugging has been proposed as an effective low cost method of improving sweep efficiency by reducing permeability of water-swept regions of a reservoir. To optimize the field implementation of this method, better mechanistic and volumetric understanding of biofilm growth within a porous medium is needed. In particular, the engineering design hinges upon a quantitative relationship bet...

Blocking the already swept high permeable zone with a biodegradable polymer gel is expected to be a more effective and innovative sweep efficiency improvement (SEI) method. This is because it has no risk of formation damage, and it is expected to show additional oil recovery if the microbes have a MEOR effect. In this study, in order to confirm the effect of this blocking on the SEI, a waterflo...

In previous studies, the efficiency of the Half-Sweep Multigrid method has been shown to be very fast as compared with the standard Multigrid method. This is due to its ability to reduce computational complexity of the standard method. In this paper, the primary goal is to purpose the Half-Sweep Algebraic Multigrid (HSAMG) method using the HSCN finite difference scheme for solving one-dimension...