[Oct 31, 2014] Changhe Qiao, a graduate student who works closely with Energy and Mineral Engineering department at Penn State, attended the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (SPEATCE) and presented his research findings there. The CCMA group places a strong emphasis on a solid understanding of multi-physics problems with applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, and biology. Changhe cites this as a primary basis for the accuracy of his model and simulations.”
The audience of Changhe’s talk was heated and his work received much praise from the audience. His talk also motivated the collaboration between faculty at Penn State who work on modeling subsurface flows and experimentalists from the University of Stavanger in Norway on the enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs. Changhe also published two conference papers on the intersecting areas of multiphase flow, geochemistry, thermodynamics and numerical simulation. Both of the papers were submitted to the SPE journal.
The applications of computational mathematics are fully demonstrated in understanding the interacting multi-physics system. This marks the success of the interdisciplinary education that the CCMA offers. The CCMA has been working on reservoir simulation problems and has published many papers in this area. With a better understanding of the fundamental mathematical laws that dominate multiphase flow in porous media, the CCMA is working to advance subsurface flow simulation even further.