Linear solvers for reservoir simulation problems: An overview and recent developments

S Nardean, M Ferronato, A Abushaikha - Archives of Computational …, 2022 - Springer
Linear solvers for reservoir simulation applications are the objective of this review.
Specifically, we focus on techniques for Fully Implicit (FI) solution methods, in which the set …

A two-stage preconditioner for multiphase poromechanics in reservoir simulation

JA White, N Castelletto, S Klevtsov, QM Bui… - Computer Methods in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many applications involving porous media–notably reservoir engineering and geologic
applications–involve tight coupling between multiphase fluid flow, transport, and …

Fully mass-conservative IMPES schemes for incompressible two-phase flow in porous media

H Chen, J Kou, S Sun, T Zhang - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper we consider fully mass-conservative numerical schemes for the simulation of
incompressible and immiscible two-phase flow in porous media with capillary pressure …

A fully implicit constraint-preserving simulator for the black oil model of petroleum reservoirs

H Yang, S Sun, Y Li, C Yang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to the rapid advancement of supercomputing resource, there is a growing interest in
developing parallel algorithms for the large-scale reservoir simulation. In this paper, we …

Darcy-scale phase equilibrium modeling with gravity and capillarity

S Sun - Journal of Computational Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
The modeling of multiphase fluid mixture and its flow in porous media is of great interest in
the field of reservoir simulation. In this paper, we formulate a novel energy-based framework …

Fully implicit hybrid two-level domain decomposition algorithms for two-phase flows in porous media on 3D unstructured grids

L Luo, L Liu, XC Cai, DE Keyes - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Simulation of subsurface flows in porous media is difficult due to the nonlinearity of the
operators and the high heterogeneity of material coefficients. In this paper, we present a …

Parallel multilevel restricted Schwarz preconditioners for implicit simulation of subsurface flows with Peng-Robinson equation of state

R Li, H Yang, C Yang - Journal of Computational Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Parallel algorithms and simulators with good scalabilities are particularly important for large-
scale reservoir simulations on modern supercomputers with a large number of processors …

Fully implicit two-phase VT-flash compositional flow simulation enhanced by multilayer nonlinear elimination

Y Li, H Yang, S Sun - Journal of Computational Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
VT flash calculation, with the variable specification of volume, temperature and mole
numbers, is a newly-rising alternative to the conventional PT flash calculation for phase …

Accelerated nonlinear domain decomposition solver for multi-phase flow and transport in porous media

J Jiang, P Tomin, H Tchelepi - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of robust and efficient nonlinear solution strategies for multi-phase
flow and transport within natural porous media is challenging. Fully Implicit Method (FIM) is …

A 6M digital twin for modeling and simulation in subsurface reservoirs

S Sun, T Zhang - 2020 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
Modeling and simulation of flow, transport and geomechanics in the subsurface porous
media is an effective approach to help make decisions associated with the management of …