Workshop on Averaging, Upscaling, and New Theories in Porous Media Flow and Transport, Bergen, October 14-15, 2010
In memory of Magne Espedal (1942-2010).

Thursday, October 14

10:00-13:30 SESSION CHAIR: William G. Gray
10:00-10:15 Opening remarks by Helge Dahle
10:15-11:00 Laura Pyrak-Nolte: Film Contributions to the Capillary Pressure - Saturation Relationship
11:00-11:45 Vahid Joekar-Niasar: Application of pore-network models for analysis of Darcy-scale two-phase equations
11:45-12:30 Saeed Fallah Bolandtaba and Arne Skauge: Mechanistic network modelling of waterflood EOR processes
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
 
13:30-15:30 SESSION CHAIR: Philip J. Binning
13:30-14:15 William G. Gray: Observations on Model Consistency Across Scale
14:15-15:00 Jan M. Nordbotten: On multiscale modeling and simulation
15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
 
15:30-16:45 SESSION CHAIR: Inga Berre
15:30-16:15 Ivar Aavatsmark: Gridding challenges of steam assisted gravity drainage
16:15-16:45 Eirik Keilegavlen: Discretisation issues related to tensorial relative permeability

Friday, October 15

09:15-11:00 SESSION CHAIR: Helge Dahle
09:15-10:00 Knut-Andreas Lie: Flow-based coarsening for multiscale simulation of transport in porous media
10:00-10:45 I. Sorin Pop: Upscaling of pore scale models for reactive flows
10:45-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
 
11:00-12:30 SESSION CHAIR: Ivar Aavatsmark
11:00-11:45 Rudolf Hilfer: Macroscopic capillarity without capillary pressure (Paper I, Paper II)
11:45-12:30 Florian Doster: Numerical solutions for a generalized theory for macroscopic capillarity (Paper I, Paper II)
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
 
13.30-16:00 SESSION CHAIR: Jan M. Nordbotten
13:30-14:15 Philip J. Binning: Why we need upscaling to describe microbiological processes in groundwater: Examples from fractured porous media and bioaugmentation technologies
14:15-15:00 Sarah Gasda: Consideration of geomechanical effects in CO2 storage models
15:00-15:45 Inga Berre: Identification of reservoir parameters using flexible representations
15:45-16:00 Closing remarks

Published October 26, 2010


Project 178013 funded by the Climit programme