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The objective of this thesis is to use proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method in numerical simulation of a hydrocarbon reservoir to decrease computational time.The algorithm basically consists of two projection steps: (1) projecting the governing equations onto a subspace spanned by a low number of global empirical basis functions extracted from previous time step solutions, and (2) solving the governing equations in this reduced space and projecting the solution back on the original, high dimensional one. After projection of governing equations to new subspace, because of much less dimensions of this subspace, the computational cost of numerical solution of the equations, which mostly... 

One of the most important issues in the petroleum industry, is how to increase the oil production from hydrocarbon reservoirs. The optimum design of an enhanced oil recovery process needs the knowledge on the physical phenomena of the working flow in oil reservoirs. An important aspect of any oil recovery process is the effectiveness of process fluid in removing oil from the rock pores at microscopic scales, in a way that it determines the success or failure of the recovery process. Meanwhile, one of the most important factors on the fluid mobility and as a result the microscopic mobility efficiency is the pressure difference between different phases in narrow paths of porous media. This... 

Nowadays, we know that many hydrocarbon reservoirs are fractured regarding this, the investigation of the properties of these reservoirs is necessary to predict the storage, production and the drilling methods. To identify fractured reservoirs, the fracture properties and their geometries under different conditions should be investigated. Besides, the evaluation of the behavior of induced fractures in distinct under ground conditions is very important. The Mechanical properties of the drilling bed like crack propagation, layer and mass rock is impactful in planning of drilling process and hydraulic fracturing operation. In this research, at first we introduce natural and induced fractures... 

In recent decades, there have been great efforts to simulate flow in hydrocarbon reservoirs and oil recovery processes. Compositional model is one of the most advanced models for this purpose. In this model nonlinear mass conservation equations for multicomponent flow have to be solved along with thermodynamic equilibrium constraints. In most compositional simulators, an equation of state is used to determine phase behavior of hydrocarbon mixtures. In this work an efficient two-phase compositional model for both immiscible and miscible fluid flows in porous media is presented. The solution algorithm employs the so-called Implicit Pressure Explicit Saturation (IMPES) method. To determine the... 

In this work, the combination of a multi-scale finite volume and streamline methods is presented for subsurface flow modeling. The used multi-scale method in this work is the same with the traditional type of it in algorithm and formulation. However, because of using a new mesh structure for implementation of multi-scale finite volume method, the new method named by Staggered Mesh Multi-scale Finite Volume (SMMsFV) method. Using the staggered mesh has some advantages such as reducing the computational cost and increasing the accuracy of the multi-scale method. In the SMMsFV method, first the coarse grid and dual coarse grid are constructed on the underlying fine grid. Then, the basis and... 

Iran is one of the biggest suppliers of oil in the world. Iran's economy highly depends on its oil. Iran has valuable old reservoirs that need some techniques to optimize their production of it.Determining optimal well placement and control is essential to maximizing production from an oil field. The reservoir optimization problem is an extraordinary complex problem that depends on many factors such as flow pattern, well specification, reservoir properties, and environmental and economic criteria. Finding the locations of injection and production wells and other optimum operational parameters in the oil industry are very important and have a great influence on the operation of the... 

Considering that hydrocarbon production, reduces energy of reservoir and causes part of the valuable compounds remaining in the oil or gas reservoir and can not be extracted by reservoir energy, so optimization of production by control flow rate, drilling new wells and applying lOR and EOR methods in order to increase hydrocarbon recovery is necessary. Gas and water inject through injection well into the reservoir for improve oil recovery. As implementation of different production and injection scenario is very expensive. Simulation of different method and applying the best is very helpful and necessary. In this study we use Eclipse software that is one of the best software that can simulate...