Download or read book Uncertainty Quantification and Models of Multi-phase Flow in Porous Media written by Proper K. Torsu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates models of multiphase flow in porous media with the goal of understanding the behavior of classical and novel descriptions of flow, the strengths and shortcoming of each, and establishing numerical solutions for various models to demonstrate their accuracy. Of particular interest are equilibrium and non-equilibrium imbibition models. Our studies have revealed new findings and results which open new avenues of research and applications in the future. With respect to non-equilibrium models, the contributions of this work to existing results include extension of a spontaneous countercurrent imbibition model studied by Silin and Patzek to second order and its capability to accommodate non-constant redistribution time. The study has demonstrated that late time asymptotic solutions do not depend on relaxation time. Moreover, an analysis of the extended model has revealed that recovery scales with square root of time; an important results established by Barenblatt, Ryzhik and Sinlin and Patzek. Another important study in this direction is a decomposition method for solving quasilinear initial boundary value problems, especially transport systems. This study was inspired by Adomian decomposition, a technique for solving nonlinear partial differential equations. One primary limitation of the Adomian decomposition is its inability to solve boundary value problems with zero or constant boundary conditions in general. In this work, the traditional Adomian decomposition method has been extended to quasilinear initial boundary value problems. The method has been applied to several standard problems in engineering and physics. In a slightly different direction, this dissertation also explored several aspects of Uncertainty Quantification of parameters in reservoir engineering. We studied a decomposition method for quantifying uncertainty associated with coefficients reservoir in modeling. This method has been applied to optimization of well placement problems; where it is integrated into a simulator for the transport system. If applicable, the method in general serves as a replacement for Monte Carlo simulations. It has been demonstrated in this dissertation that the decomposition method is substantially more efficient in comparison to the traditional Monte Carlo simulations. It also offers a variety of choices between computational resources, time and accuracy of the approximations.