Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flows in Porous Media

怀俄明州大学的数学系将购买一台计算机设备，专门用于支持数学科学的研究。该设备将用于几个研究项目，特别是：三相多孔介质流的数值模拟，对这种流动的放大问题的调查，非线性守恒律的粒子跟踪方案的发展和并行自适应多尺度有限元法，可以应用于他们。这些项目旨在推进油藏和含水层等多孔介质中流体流动建模和模拟的最新技术。他们将探索新的计算算法，无论是顺序和并行计算机，复杂的流体物理学的结合，并最终将这些方法应用于研究已经在怀俄明州以及美国其他地方使用的强化采油技术。因此，这些项目将对怀俄明州产生巨大的社会影响，因为怀俄明州的天然气、煤炭和石油储量集中，最终也会对美国产生影响。保持其在应用计算科学领域的领导地位，该领域对当今世界经济具有高度重要性。在不同的规模上，这些项目跨越了几个学科，并在其学术计划中与怀俄明州大学的跨学科计算科学使命相协调。数学系、统计系、化学与石油工程系、化学系、计算机科学系以及提高石油采收率研究所和能源学院之间现有的研究联系将得到加强，并将吸引更多的学生参加现有的课程。该项目与一个正在进行的教育计划紧密结合，旨在开发计算科学的本科和研究生课程，通过上述一些部门作为辅修课程提供。这个未成年人已经在艺术水平的数学系的学院批准，重点将是在高性能计算及其在复杂物理学的研究中的使用，与第一个本科生预计今年秋天的学生培训。在接下来的几年里，这些部门和研究生项目预计将逐步跟进。

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Wyoming will purchasecomputer equipment which will be dedicated to the support of research inthe mathematical sciences. The equipment will be used for severalresearch projects, including in particular: the numerical simulation ofthree-phase porous-media flows, the investigation of the the scale-upproblem for such flows, the development of particle tracking schemes fornonlinear conservation laws and of parallel adaptive multi-scale finiteelement methods that can be applied to them. The projects aimat advancing the state-of-the-art in modeling and simulation of fluidflow in porous media such as oil reservoirs and aquifers. They willexplore new computational algorithms, both for sequential and parallelcomputers, the incorporation of complex fluid physics, and eventuallywill apply these methods to the study of enhanced oil recoverytechniques which are already used in the state of Wyoming as well aselsewhere in the United States. Thus, the projects will have a largesocial impact on the state of Wyoming, due to its concentration ofnatural resources in gas, coal and oil reservoirs, and ultimately on theU.S. maintaining its leadership role in applied computational science ina field of high importance to today's world economy. On a differentscale, the projects span several disciplines and are tuned to theUniversity of Wyoming mission of interdisciplinary computational sciencein its academic plan. Existing research links between the Departments ofMathematics, Statistics, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Chemistry,Computer Science, as well as the Institute for Enhanced Oil Recovery andthe School for Energy Resources will be stimulated, and will result inattracting additional students in the existing programs. The project iscoupled tightly with an on-going education plan aimed at developing bothan undergraduate and a graduate curriculum in Computational Science, tobe offered through some of the above departments above as a minor. Thisminor has already been approved at the College of Arts level for theMathematics Department where the emphasis will be on training studentsin high-performance computing and its use in the study of complexphysics, with first undergraduate students expected this Fall. Otherdepartments and the graduate program are expected to follow graduallyover the next couple of years.