2021/05/19 by Andy Wilkins, Andrew Wilkins, Christopher P. Green +2 · 67 citations
Engineering · Environmental Science · #CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions #Code (set theory) #Computational science #Computer science #Finite element method #Geology #Geotechnical engineering #Groundwater flow and contamination studies #Multiphysics #Open source #Physics #Porosity #Porous medium #Programming language #Set (abstract data type) #Software #Soil and Unsaturated Flow #Source code #Thermodynamics
paper · doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104820
published in Computers & Geosciences 154, 104820 (Elsevier BV)
openalex publication_date 2021/05/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Numerical-simulation studies of transport and flow in porous media are essential in many practical fields of research. Including the coupling of different physical processes allows accurate modelling of the effects of fluid flow and temperature changes on the subsurface reservoir structure, and conversely, the effects of reservoir-structure changes on fluids and heat. In this study, we introduce the development of a physics module for non-isothermal, multicomponent, multiphase flow in porous media , as part of the open-source, multiphysics simulation framework MOOSE. Through tight interfaces with existing physics modules for solid mechanics and aqueous geochemistry , massively parallel, fully implicit, fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical simulations are possible. MOOSE and the porous flow module are freely available under an open-source license, making MOOSE a platform for collaborative efforts in this field of research.