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Title:

An Open Source Coupling Algorithm With Applications Towards

CO2 Storage Modelling

Authors:

Alain Dimier

Published in:

 

(2011).ECMS 2011 Proceedings edited by: T. Burczynski, J. Kolodziej, A. Byrski, M. Carvalho. European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2011 

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-2-9

 

25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Jubilee Conference

Krakow, June 7-10, 2011

 

Citation format:

Dimier, A. (2011). An Open Source Coupling Algorithm With Applications Towards CO2 Storage Modelling. ECMS 2011 Proceedings edited by: T. Burczynski, J. Kolodziej, A. Byrski, M. Carvalho (pp. 261-266). European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2011-0261-0266

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2011-0261-0266

Abstract:

We present here the way to bring together two open source modellers, PhreeqC and Elmer, with disjunctive application fields. They are gathered in a single environment to enable multi-component, reactive solute transport studies in three- dimensional saturated/ unsaturated ground-water flow systems. The choice of Python as programming environment is explained, the way the tools become so called Python modules is presented. Based on Open Source, it enables the study of natural and contaminated ground-water flow systems at a variety of scales ranging from laboratory experiments to local and regional field scales.

Two illustrative examples are given. The first one is considering dissolution/precipitation phenomena in the near field of a geothermal injection well. The second study is considering at a laboratory scale the interaction of a CO2 brine with a Calcite plug, that one is directly issued from the CO2 application field.

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