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Reservoir Modeling & Recovery Center

Models fluid flow in porous media through multiphase-flow simulation, integrating well-test/pressure-transient analysis, material balance, and uncertainty quantification to predict and optimize reservoir performance and recovery.

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Research Fields 17

💧 Multiphase Flow, Relative Permeability & Immiscible Displacement

Multiphase-flow theory in reservoir engineering describes how two or more immiscible fluid…

🧪 Compositional & Equation-of-State Reservoir Simulation

Compositional reservoir simulation models hydrocarbon fluid behavior by tracking the mole …

🪨 Naturally Fractured Reservoir Modeling

Naturally fractured reservoir modeling represents rock that contains two distinct, interco…

🧮 Numerical Linear Solvers for Reservoir Simulation

This field develops and benchmarks the iterative and direct linear-algebra algorithms that…

🔁 Iterative Linearization of Nonlinear Reservoir Flow Equations

Reservoir flow equations are nonlinear because rock and fluid properties, relative permeab…

📈 Numerical Stability & Convergence Analysis of Reservoir Simulators

This field establishes how large a timestep a finite-difference or finite-volume reservoir…

📐 Well-Posedness & Analytical Solution Theory for Reservoir Flow PDEs

This field derives and verifies closed-form or series solutions to the partial differentia…

🕳️ Permeability-Porosity Relationships & Pore Structure Theory

This field develops theoretical and empirical relationships that predict a rock's permeabi…

🔬 Digital Rock Physics & Pore-Scale CT Imaging

Digital rock physics reconstructs a rock's three-dimensional pore structure from X-ray mic…

💠 Wettability & Interfacial Phenomena in Reservoir Rocks

Wettability characterization quantifies which fluid, oil or water, preferentially coats a …

📊 Reservoir Heterogeneity Characterization

Reservoir heterogeneity characterization quantifies how unevenly permeability is distribut…

🗺️ Reservoir Upscaling & Homogenization of Heterogeneous Media

Reservoir upscaling replaces a fine geocellular model's permeability and porosity fields, …

⚖️ Material Balance Equations for Oil & Gas Reservoirs

The material balance equation applies conservation of mass to a hydrocarbon reservoir trea…

🌊 Aquifer Influx & Transient Boundary Flow Analysis

Aquifer-influx models quantify how much water flows from a connected water-bearing formati…

📟 Pressure Transient Analysis via Operational Calculus

Pressure transient analysis interprets the pressure response recorded at a well during a c…

🎯 History Matching & Gradient-Based Inverse Problems

History matching is the inverse problem of adjusting uncertain reservoir-simulation-model …

🌀 Streamline Simulation & Hele-Shaw Flow Analogy

Streamline simulation reformulates the three-dimensional multiphase reservoir flow problem…