Porous Media Processes and Mathematics (PM)^2

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Geothermal Energy)
Not Energy Related
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(CO2 Capture and Storage, CO2 storage)
Hydrogen and Fuel Cells(Fuel Cells)
Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Enhanced oil and gas production)

Basic and strategic applied research

PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Applied Mathematics)
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor G Lord
Sch of Mathematical and Computer Science
Heriot-Watt University

Standard

EPSRC

28 January 2013

27 January 2016

36 months

£145,471

Mathematical sciences

Scotland

NC : Maths

Professor G Lord, Sch of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University

Dr S Geiger-Boschung, Institute Of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University

Project Contact, Computer Modeling Group CMG Ltd, Canada
Project Contact, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd

Natural and industrial porous media is key to a wide variety of traditional and emerging engineering applications, including but not limited to oil and gas extraction from geological reservoirs, carbon capture and storage, geothermal reservoir engineering, soil sciences, groundwater remediation and protection, biological engineering, food processing, fuel cells, nano-technology, construction engineering, wood processing and printing.We are proposing the formation of a UK wide research network focussed on porous media flow which will sit at the interface between engineering, applied mathematics, applied probability and scientific computing. The overall aim of the network is to transfer techniques, models and scientific insights between engineering and mathematics, as well as promote mobility between academia and industry. Initially, the key areas of scientific research will include: large scale computational modelling, fundamental pore-scale physics, inverse problems and history matching, reservoir simulations, soil science and shallow ecosystems, theoretical biology and physiology, groundwater remediation, subsurface storage of greenhouse gases and nuclear waste, uncertainty quantification, homogenisation and multi-scale methods, visualization, numerical analysis and random field modelling

19/03/13