Numerical Treatment of Multiphase Flows in Porous Media: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held at Beijing, China, 2–6 August 1999 (Lecture Notes in Physics (552))

The need to predict, understand, and optimize complex physical and c- mical processes occurring in and around the earth, such as groundwater c- tamination, oil reservoir production, discovering new oil reserves, and ocean hydrodynamics, has been increasingly recognized. Despite their seemingly disparate natures, these geoscience problems have many common mathe- tical and computational characteristics. The techniques used to describe and study them are applicable across a broad range of areas. The study of the above problems through physical experiments, mat- matical theory, and computational techniques requires interdisciplinary col- boration between engineers, mathematicians, computational scientists, and other researchers working in industry, government laboratories, and univ- sities. By bringing together such researchers, meaningful progress can be made in predicting, understanding, and optimizing physical and chemical processes. The International Workshop on Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous - dia was successfully held in Beijing, China, August 2{6, 1999. The aim of this workshop was to bring together applied mathematicians, computational scientists, and engineers working actively in the mathematical and nume- cal treatment of ?uid ?ow and transport in porous media. A broad range of researchers presented papers and discussed both problems and current, state-of-the-art techniques. Mathematical and Numerical Techniques in Energy and Environmental Modeling....Pages 1-21 Domain Decomposition for Some Transmission Problems in Flow in Porous Media....Pages 22-34 Numerical Subgrid Upscaling of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media....Pages 35-49 Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Fractured Porous Media....Pages 50-68 The Modified Method of Characteristics for Compressible Flow in Porous Media....Pages 69-79 A Numerical Algorithm for Single Phase Fluid Flow in Elastic Porous Media....Pages 80-92 On the Discretization of Interface Problems with Perfect and Imperfect Contact....Pages 93-103 Finite Element Analysis for Pseudo Hyperbolic Integral-Differential Equations....Pages 104-115 A CFL-Free Explicit Scheme with Compression for Linear Hyperbolic Equations....Pages 116-123 Maximizing Cache Memory Usage for Multigrid Algorithms for Applications of Fluid Flow in Porous Media....Pages 124-137 A Locally Conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method for Flow in a Porous Medium of a Mixture of Two Components Having Different Densities....Pages 138-155 Validation of Non-darcy Well Models Using Direct Numerical Simulation....Pages 156-169 Mathematical Treatment of Diffusion Processes of Gases and Fluids in Porous Media....Pages 170-178 Implementation of a Locally Conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method Applied to Nuclear Contaminant Transport....Pages 179-189 Application of a Class of Nonstationary Iterative Methods to Flow Problems....Pages 190-194 Reservoir Thermal Recover Simulation on Parallel Computers....Pages 195-207 A Class of Lattice Boltzmann Models with the Energy Equation....Pages 208-215 Block Implicit Computation of Flow Field in Solid Rocket Ramjets....Pages 216-221 Stable Conforming and Nonconforming Finite Element Methods for the Non-newtonian Flow....Pages 222-231 Numerical Simulation of Compositional Fluid Flow in Porous Media....Pages 232-243 Parallelization of a Compositional Reservoir Simulator....Pages 244-266 Relationships among Some Conservative Discretization Methods....Pages 267-282 Parallel Methods for Solving Time-Dependent Problems Using the Fourier-Laplace Transformation....Pages 283-291 Cascadic Multigrid Methods for Parabolic Pressure Problems....Pages 292-298 Estimation in the Presence of Outliers: The Capillary Pressure Case....Pages 299-310 A Comparison of ELLAM with ENO/WENO Schemes for Linear Transport Equations....Pages 311-323 An Accurate Approximation to Compressible Flow in Porous Media with Wells....Pages 324-332 Fast Convergent Algorithms for Solving 2D Integral Equations of the First Kind....Pages 333-344 A Two-Grid Finite Difference Method for Nonlinear Parabolic Equations....Pages 345-350 A Compact Operator Method for the Omega Equation....Pages 351-361 Domain Decomposition Algprithm for a New Characteristic Mixed Finite Element Method for Compressible Miscible Displacement....Pages 362-372 A Boundary Element Method for Viscous Flow on Multi-connected Domains....Pages 373-377 A Characteristic Difference Method for 2D Nonlinear Convection-Diffusion Problems....Pages 378-389 Fractional Step Methods for Compressible Multicomponent Flow in Porous Media....Pages 390-403 A Model and Its Solution Method for a Generalized Unsteady Seepage Flow Problem....Pages 404-408 Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for Non-selfconjugate Second Order Elliptic Problems....Pages 409-418 Performance of MOL for Surface Motion Driven by a Laplacian of Curvature....Pages 419-429 A High-Order Upwind Method for Convection-Diffusion Equations with the Newmann Boundary Condition....Pages 430-440

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