U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Research on Simulation of Flow in Porous Media

9402255道格拉斯美国-巴西合作科学计划奖资助印第安纳州普渡大学的吉姆·道格拉斯博士和菲利佩·佩雷拉博士访问巴西的旅费。访问的目的是进行多长度尺度、非均匀多孔介质中多相流模拟的数值方法的建模、分析和设计。参与该项目的巴西研究人员是里约热内卢大学理工学院的Paulo Jorge S.Paes Leme教授和联邦弗卢米嫩塞大学的Mauricio Kischinhevsky博士。该项目针对两个问题：了解油藏中涉及二次采油的流体动力学，特别是在天然裂缝性油藏中。其次，该项目将模拟地下水在呈现多长度尺度非均质性的地层中的污染，和/或可能被压裂的地层。计算涉及到大规模并行处理的使用。美国和巴西都面临着严重的能源问题，都对减少地下水污染感兴趣。因此，预计两国都将从这一合作中受益。***

9402255 Douglas This U. S.-Brazil Cooperative Science Program award supports travel expenses related to the visits of Drs. Jim Douglas and Felipe Pereira, Purdue University, Indiana, to Brazil. The purpose of the visits is to perform modeling, analysis and design of numerical methods for the simulation of multiphase flows in multi-length scale, heterogeneous porous media. The Brazilian researchers involved in this project are Prof. Paulo Jorge S. Paes Leme of the Instituto Politecnico of the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Dr. Mauricio Kischinhevsky, of the Universidade Federal Fluminense. The project aims at two problems: understanding the hydrodynamics involving secondary oil recovery in petroleum reservoirs, particularly in naturally fractured reservoirs. Secondly, the project will simulate contamination of ground water in formations that present multi-length scale heterogeneities, and/or that can possibly be fractured. The computations involve the use of massively parallel processing. Both the U.S. and Brazil confront critical energy problems, and are interested in reducing contamination of ground water. Therefore both countries are expected to benefit from this collaboration. ***