Gradient-based optimization of flow through porous media: Version 3

These notes form part of the course material for the MSc course AES1490 "Advanced Reservoir Simulation" which has been taught at TU Delft over the past decade as part of the track "Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences" in the two-year MSc program "Applied Earth Sciences".<br/>The notes cover the gradient-based optimization of subsurface flow....

Challenges in adjoint-based well location optimization when using well models

There is a general consensus that the most efficient method for large-scale well location optimization is gradient-based with gradients computed with an adjoint formulation. Handels et al. (2007) (later published in journal form as Zandvliet et al., 2008), were the first to use the adjoint method for well placement optimization for which they...