Upscaling polymer flooding: Developing a workflow based on particle swarm optimization

In this research a workflow for upscaling polymer flooding is developed. The workflow generates pseudorelative permeabilities (pseudos) to represent flow behaviour affected by fine scale heterogeneities in a coarse grid. With this workflow, a better estimate of the difference in production from a polymer flood compared to a water flood can be...

The Bolivar Roads Surge Barrier: A conceptual design for the environmental section

In response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Ike to the Galveston Bay Area, Texas, United States in September 2008, several proposals emerged to protect the region against future storm surges. One of them is a coastal spine called the ’Ike Dike’. A challenge for this 160 km [100 mi] long flood protection is to cross Bolivar Roads, a 2.8 km...

Flooding: Classification and simulation

Flooding of an area can be described mathematically and by the use of scale models. The different flow regimes can be discerned using the scale model and then these regimes can be modelled using mathematical relations. This mathematical description can then be used to design simulation computer code for such a flooding. The first part ofthis...