Monday July 25/8:00

MS3/Harbor 3

Computational Methods in the Geosciences: Porous Media (Part 1 of 2)

This session will explore some central problems for flow in porous media: geostatistics, small length scale variability and its influence on macroscopic flow, and complex chemistry (and biochemistry) of flow systems. The speakers will discuss advanced solution methods depending on parallel computing and multigrid methods, and will relate these ideas to practical problems in oil reservoir production and the environmental remediation of groundwater. This session will be of interest to computational scientists and modelers and numerical analysts with an interest in flow in porous media or an interest in current use of high performance parallel computing methods. Organizers: James G. Glimm, State University of New York, Stony Brook and Mary F. Wheeler, Rice University

• 8:00: Stratigraphic Controls on Permeability and Fluid Flow Patterns in Variably Cyclic Ramp Carbonates: An Outcrop Study of the San Andres Formation, New Mexico David J. Goggin, R. A. Eisenberg, C. W. Grant, and P. M. Harris, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company
• 8:30: Productivity Aspects of Integrated Studies in Porous Media J. Robert Gochnour, Simon Petroleum Technology Corporation, Houston; and Gary J. Murton, Simon Petroleum Technology, Ltd., United Kingdom
• 9:00: A New Method for the Scale Up of Displacement Processes in Heterogeneous Reservoirs Louis J. Durlofsky, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company
• 9:30: A Model for Fluid Dispersion in Porous Media W. Brent Lindquist, State University of New York, Stony Brook