Reservoir Control and Identification: Motivated by Water Coning

Boundary Control of the Gas Coning Problem

This thesis was set to tackle the gas coning problem in oil-rim reservoirs with horizontal wells. The focus was short term production planning in the sub-critical phase only. Different controllers were developed and assessed based on the objective of netpresent-value (NPV) of oil produced in the sub-critical phase. The reservoir model is a 1-D partial differential equation describing the dynami...

Modeling and Control of Complex River and Water Reservoir Systems

Wettability Alteration of Oil- Wet and Water-Wet of Iranian Heavy Oil Reservoir by CuO Nanoparticles

The petroleum industry requires the best materials to reverse the rock wettability to water-wet state which give significantly improved oil recovery.Nanoparticles are suggested as enhanced oil recovery potential agents to decrease viscosity and alter the wettability of reservoir towards more water-wet. This study provides new insights into CuO nanoparticles effects on wett...

Control States and Motivated Agency

One of the challenges faced by researchers in the behaviour modelling of life-like characters is the need to develop a systematic framework in which to ask questions about the types of internal state life-like characters might possess, and how those different states interact. We propose a solution based on a cognitively inspired multi-layered agent architecture (composed of reactive, deliberati...

Coning, Symmetry and Spherical Frameworks

In this paper, we combine separate works on (a) the transfer of infinitesimal rigidity results from an Euclidean space to the next higher dimension by coning [28], (b) the further transfer of these results to spherical space via associated rigidity matrices [19], and (c) the prediction of finite motions from symmetric infinitesimal motions at regular points of the symmetryderived orbit rigidity...