Resource Recovery, Confinement, and Remediation of Environmental Hazards

by Chadam, John M.; Cunningham, A.; Ewing, Richard E.; Ortoleva, P.; Wheeler, Mary Fanett

• ISBN13: 9780387955063
• ISBN10: 0387955062
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The papers in this volume arose out of two workshops entitled 'Confinement and Remediation of Environmental Hazards,' and 'Resource Recovery,' as part of the IMA 1999-2000 program year. These workshops brought together mathematicians, engineers and scientists to summarize recent theoretical, computational, and experimental advances in the theory of phenomena in porous media. The first workshop focused on the mathematical problems which arise in groundwater transport of contamination, and the spreading, confinement and remediation of biological, chemical and radioactive waste. In the second conference, the processes underlying petroleum recovery and the geological time scale of deformation, flow and reaction in porous media were discussed. Simulation techniques were used to simulate complex domains with widely-ranging spatial resolution and types of physics. Probability funcional methods for determining the most probable state of the subsurface and related uncertainty were discussed. Practical examples included breakout from chemical and radioactive waste repositories, confinement by injection of pore plugging material and bioremediation of petroleum and other wastes. This volume will be of interest to subsurface science practitioners who would like a view of recent mathematical and experimental efforts to examine subsurface science phenomena related to resource recovery and remediation issues.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Preface	vii
Resource Recovery
Advanced techniques and algorithms for reservoir simulation, I: frontier issues in managing oil and gas production	1	(8)
Steven Bryant
Advanced techniques and algorithms for reservoir simulation, II: the multiblock approach in the integrated parallel accurate reservoir simulator (IPARS)	9	(12)
Mary F. Wheeler
Advanced techniques and algorithms for reservoir simulation, III: multiphysics coupling for two phase flow in degenerate conditions	21	(20)
lgorzata Peszynska
Advanced techniques and algorithms for reservoir simulation, IV: multiblock solvers and preconditioners	41	(16)
Ivan Yotov
Upscaling of biological processes and multiphase flow in highly heterogeneous media	57	(24)
Richard E. Ewing
Foamy oil flow in porous media	81	(34)
D.D. Joseph
A.M. Kamp
R. Bai
Diffusion in deformable media	115	(16)
R.E. Showalter
Fractures, faults, and the nonlinear RTM dynamics of sedimentary basins	131	(30)
K. Tuncay
A. Park
P. Ortoleva
Probability functionals, homogenization and comprehensive reservoir simulators	161	(18)
K. Tuncay
P. Ortoleva
Confinement and Remediation of Environmental Hazards
Diffusion-limited contamination and decontamination in a layered aquitard: forensic and predictive analysis of field data	179	(16)
William P. Ball
Chongxuan Liu
Modeling of biofilm growth in porous media at the pore scale and up-scaling	195	(22)
Benito Chen-Charpentier
Yaqing Li
Brian Suchomel
Coal tar contamination: Bioremediation and bioavailability	217	(14)
Peter C. D'Adamo
Edward J. Bouwer
William P. Ball
The local discontinuous Galerkin method for advection-diffusion equations arising in groundwater and surface water applications	231	(16)
Clint Dawson
Vadym Aizinger
Compaction and diagenesis	247	(16)
A.C. Fowler
Numerical simulation of freshwater, salt water and methane interaction processes in a coastal aquifer	263	(20)
R. Hinkelmann
H. Sheta
H. Class
E.J. Sauter
R. Helmig
M. Schluter
A preconditioning technique as an upscaling procedure	283	(14)
Hilde Reme
Magne S. Espedal
Gunnar E. Fladmark
List of workshop participants	297