Elodie Joanne Jones from TU Delft, Master student of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, is the second SFB 1313 master's thesis scholarship holder of the winter semester 2018/2019 (from 1st November 2018 until 30th April 2019). She started her thesis within the SFB 1313 research at TU Delft and will come to the Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems (Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems) of the University of Stuttgart in the beginning of 2019. She will write her thesis about: Application of unstructured multi-level grid to thermal-reactive flow and transport in porous media.
In her thesis, she will focus on developing an unstructured multi-level gridding framework for general-purpose reservoir simulations. In particular, she will focus on thermal-reactive flow and transport formulation, which is required for a wide range of subsurface applications in the field of chemical and compositional enhanced oil recovery (EOR), reservoir storage in general and geothermal systems. The two target applications in this project will be reservoir scaling associated with low-enthalpy geothermal energy extraction and subsurface hydrogen storage. Therefore, she will especially work within Rainer Helmig's group.
Project title: Application of unstructured multi-level grid to thermal-reactive flow and transport in porous media
Supervisors: Denis Voskov (TU Delft), Rainer Helmig (University of Stuttgart)