Print Email Facebook Twitter Operator-based linearization for non-isothermal multiphase compositional flow in porous media Title Operator-based linearization for non-isothermal multiphase compositional flow in porous media Author Khait, M. (TU Delft Reservoir Engineering) Voskov, D.V. (TU Delft Reservoir Engineering) Date 2016 Abstract Non-isothermal multiphase compositional simulation is based on the solution of governing equations describing mass and energy transfer in the subsurface. The solution strategy requires a linearization of strongly nonlinear governing equations describing the process. Usually, a Newton-based method is used for the linearization that demands an assembly of a Jacobian matrix and residuals for a fully coupled system of equations. Recently, a new linearization approach was proposed for compositional problems and tested for simulation of binary compositional and low-enthalpy geothermal flow. The key idea of the approach is the transformation of discretised mass conservation equations to an operator form with separate space-dependent and state-dependent components. This transformation provides an opportunity for an approximate representation of exact physics (physical properties) of the problem. Specifically, each term of conservation equations is represented as a product of two different operators. The first operator depends on a current physical state of a system and contains different properties such as density, viscosity, relative permeability, etc. The second operator captures both spatially altered properties such as permeability and the rest of state variables such as pressure in the discrete approximation of the gradient. At the pre-processing stage, all state-dependent operators are uniformly parametrized within the physical space of the problem (pressure-composition intervals). During the simulation process, a multi-linear interpolation is applied to approximate the first type of operators, while the second type of operators is processed based on the conventional approach. In this work, we have extended this approach to general purpose simulation. We introduced the operator-based parametrization of mass and energy conservations equation based on the pressure, composition, temperature, and porosity. In addition, the approach has been extended and tested on truly multi-component systems of practical interest. The accuracy and robustness of the new method have been tested against the results of simulations based on the conventional approach. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dcf0e0e7-728e-4dc1-8a3b-eb978fa3d64f Publisher EAGE ISBN 9462821933 Source 15th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, ECMOR 2016 Event ECMOR XV, 2016-08-29 → 2016-09-01, Amsterdam, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2016 M. Khait, D.V. Voskov Files PDF Mo_P057_2_2.pdf 1.3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:dcf0e0e7-728e-4dc1-8a3b-eb978fa3d64f/datastream/OBJ/view