Dissipation-based continuation method for multiphase flow in heterogeneous porous media

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2018.08.044zbMATH Open1416.76152arXiv1804.08538OpenAlexW2798852505WikidataQ129334453 ScholiaQ129334453MaRDI QIDQ2002252FDOQ2002252

Jiamin Jiang, Hamdi A. Tchelepi

Publication date: 11 July 2019

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In reservoir simulation, solution of the coupled systems of nonlinear algebraic equations that are associated with fully-implicit (backward Euler) discretization is challenging. Having a robust and efficient nonlinear solver is necessary in order for reservoir simulation to serve as the primary tool for managing the recovery processes of large-scale reservoirs. Here, we develop a continuation method based on the use of a dissipation operator. We focus on nonlinear two-phase flow and transport in heterogeneous formations in the presence of viscous, gravitational, and capillary forces. The homotopy is constructed by adding numerical dissipation to the coupled discrete conservation equations. A continuation parameter is introduced to control the amount of dissipation. Numerical evidence of multi-dimensional models and detailed analysis of single-cell problems are used to explain how the dissipation operator improves the nonlinear convergence of the coupled system of equations. An adaptive strategy to determine the dissipation coefficient is proposed. The dissipation level is computed locally for each cell interface. We demonstrate the efficiency of the dissipation-based continuation (DBC) nonlinear solver using several examples, including 1D scalar transport and 2D heterogeneous problems with fully-coupled flow and transport. The DBC solver has better convergence properties compared with the standard damped-Newton solvers used in reservoir simulation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08538

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zbMATH Keywords

transportcontinuation methodmultiphase flownonlinear solverfully-implicitadaptive dissipationdissipation operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

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Uses Software

• NewtonLib

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