At present, petroleum hydrocarbon is one of the most serious Abstract: environmental problem. Oil spill occurring accidently in the ocean during transportation or other working places like refineries causes great threat to the flora and fauna existing nearby. Modern methods of remediation such as incineration, land filling, burning, etc. are expensive as well as their byproducts produced are of...

In recent years, numerical modelling of hydraulic fracture has become a hot topic in Petroleum Engineering. The main difficulty is related to the numerical treatment of discontinuities in a geological medium. Several approaches can be found in the literature (Boone and Ingraffea, 1990; Adachi et al., 2007); however, some of them resort to simplifications that make them inapplicable in complex c...

Hua Zhang 1,2, Lei Pei 1, Jinlei Sun 1, Kai Song 1, Rengui Lu 1, Yongping Zhao 1, Chunbo Zhu 1,* and Tiansi Wang 1 1 School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China; [email protected] (H.Z.); [email protected] (L.P.); [email protected] (J.S.); [email protected] (K.S.); [email protected] (R.L.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); tiansi.wa...

Female, born in 1975, Ph.D, Lecturer. She gained her doctoral degree from University of Greenwich (UK) in November 2008. Her research interests mainly focus on computational fluid dynamics (CFD), multiphase flow modeling and computational algorithms. E-mail: [email protected] Received: 2010-12-07; Accepted: 2011-04-13 *Hong Wang *Hong Wang , G. Djambazov and K. A. Pericleous (1. School of ...

Shaoyi Jiang,† Rawls Frazier,‡ Elaine S. Yamaguchi,§ Mario Blanco,† Siddharth Dasgupta,† Yanhua Zhou,† Tahir Cagin,† Yongchun Tang,| and William A. Goddard, III*,† Materials and Process Simulation Center, Beckman Institute (139-74), DiVision of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, CheVron Research and Technology Company, 100 CheVron...

The natural convection flow over a surface embedded in saturated porous media is encountered in many engineering problems such as the design of pebble-bed nuclear reactors, ceramic processing, crude oil drilling, geothermal energy conversion, use of fibrous material in the thermal insulation of buildings, catalytic reactors and compact heat exchangers, heat transfer from storage of agricultural...

Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Subsurface Inversion Using a Multiscale Hierarchical Model Anirban Mondal, Bani Mallick, Yalchin Efendiev & Akhil Datta-Gupta a Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 (; ) b Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 () c Petroleum Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Stat...