A systems description of flow through porous media (Q386027)

Flows through porous media are relevant in many practical fields. ``Closed-loop reservoir management, also known as smart fields, related to, e.g., model-based production optimization, data assimilation (or history matching), model reduction or up scaling techniques'' have been developed to compute various flow and transport properties of porous media with considerable precision. In fact, this text forms a part of material that the author has given as an elective course in advanced reservoir simulation at the Delft University of Technology (Holland). The work by Jan Dirk Jansen presents a detailed introduction to the modern theory of flow and transport in porous media. An important attention is paid to the systems description of the theory. The book consists of a preface, three chapters and a symbol index. The description of these chapters is, in short, as follows: Chapter 1 ``Porous-media flow'' gives a brief review of basic equations needed to simulate single-phase and two-phase (oil-water) flows through porous media: introduction, single-phase flow, finite difference discretization, examples of single-phase flows in a simple reservoir, two-phase flow, examples of two-phase flows in a simple reservoir, fluid velocities. A list of 21 references concludes this chapter. Chapter 2 ``System models'' develops in state-space notation the porous-medium flow equations derived in Chapter 1. It describes the system and state equations, linearized equations for single-phase flows, examples, system energy, two-phase flows and computational aspects. The bibliography contains 13 references. Chapter 3 ``System response'' treats analytical solutions of linear systems of ordinary-differential equations for single-phase flows and numerical solutions of nonlinear two-phase flow equations. Here the author describes homogeneous equations, stability, singular system matrix, examples and numerical simulations (explicit and implicit Euler discretizations, Picard and Newton-Raphson iterations and numerical stability). A list of 9 references concludes the chapter. In the reviewer's opinion, this book provides a comprehensive presentation of mathematical and physical theories of flows and transport in porous media, pointing out the most important practical applications. The book is excellently written and readable. Results of numerical solutions are given graphically and in tabular form. The book will be of great interest to a wide range of specialists working in the area of flows in porous media. However, the following important books on flows in porous media were not quoted in the present work: 1. [\textit{A. Nakayama}, PC-aided numerical heat transfer and convective flows. CRC Press, Tokyo (1995)]. 4. [\textit{D. B. Ingham} (ed.) and \textit{I. Pop} (ed.), Transport phenomena in porous media. II. Amsterdam: Pergamon Press (2002; Zbl 1012.00023)]. 5. [\textit{D. B. Ingham} (ed.) and \textit{I. Pop} (ed.), Transport phenomena in porous media III. Elsevier, Oxford (2005)]. 6. [\textit{I. Pop} and \textit{D. B. Ingham}, Convective heat transfer: Mathematical and Computational Modelling of Viscous Fluids and Porous Media. Pergamon, Oxford, (2001)]. 7. [\textit{D. A. Nield} and \textit{A. Bejan}, Convection in porous media. 4th ed. New York, NY: Springer (2013; Zbl 1268.76001)]. 8. [\textit{K. Vafai} (ed.), Handbook of porous media (2nd ed.). Taylor \& Francis, New York (2005)]. 9. [\textit{P. Vadasz}, Emerging topics in heat and mass transfer in porous media. Springer, New York (2008)].