An adaptive space-time discontinuous Galerkin method for reservoir flows

Numerical simulation has become a vital tool for predicting engineering quantities of interest in reservoir flows. However, the general lack of autonomy and reliability prevents most numerical methods from being used to their full potential in engineering analysis. This thesis presents work towards the development of an efficient and robust numerical framework for solving reservoir flow problems in a fully-automated manner. In particular, a space-time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method is used to achieve a high-order discretization on a fully unstructured space-time mesh, instead of a conventional time-marching approach. Anisotropic mesh adaptation is performed to reduce the error of a specified output of interest, by using a posteriori error estimates from the dual weighted residual method to drive a metric-based mesh optimization algorithm.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Jayasinghe, Yashod Savithru.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• David L. Darmofal.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng