On this page presentations that pertain to the center are posted. Please note that some of these dates could be arbitrary especially the ones that are in their planning stages.
We have included a basic calendar structure so that everyone can follow the dates on these publications. If any one has an information that needs to be added to this page please contact the webmaster. Therefore, adjustments will be posted promptly.
Arbogast, T. “Approximation of Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media using Homogenization and Multiscale Finite Elements,” Presented at the CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, Texas, Oct. 2009.
Delshad, M., S.G. Thomas and M.F. Wheeler: “Does it Matter How to Inject CO2” presented at the Workshop on Modeling and Risk Assessment of Geological Storage of CO2, Svalbard, Norway, Aug 3-7, 2009
Delshad, M.: “Modeling and Simulation of CO2 Storage in Saline Aquifers,” Presented at the CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, Texas, Oct. 2009.
Duncan, I., MVA, UK-Texas CCS Technology and Legislation Seminar and EOR Carbon Management Workshop, Houston, TX, December 6-8, 2009.
Eichhubl, P., 2009, Fault-controlled carbonate cementation along leaking faults—implications for diagenetic fault sealing: EAGE 2nd International Conference on Fault and Top Seals, Montpellier, France, September 21-24, 2009
Eichhubl, P., Introduction to EFRC project: Diagenetic fault sealing in hydrocarbon and CO2 reservoirs: FRAC industrial affiliate meeting, Austin, TX, November 17, 2009
Hovorka, S.: “Big Science and Big Funding - BEG Research Addressing CO2 Injection and Retention in the Deep Subsurface,” Bureau of Economic Geology Fall Seminar Series, Austin, TX, September 11, 2009.
Hovorka, S.: “Carbon Capture & Sequestration: Key Field Studies and Conclusions,” Carbon Capture and Sequestration Public Workshop, California State, Bakersfield, CA, September 25, 2009.
Hovorka, S.: “Questions from CO2 Injection Field Tests --Dense Data in Search of Analysis,” Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security, Austin, TX, September 29, 2009.
Hovorka, S.: “Managing Risk to Groundwater from Large Volume CO2 Sequestration,” National Ground Water Association Theis Conference: Groundwater and Climate Change, Boulder, CO, October 4, 2009.
Hovorka, S.: “How is monitoring sequestration in an EOR site different from monitoring sequestration in a storage-only site?” Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference on CO2 Capture, Storage, and Utilization, San Diego, CA, November 4, 2009.
Thomas, S.G.: “Enhanced Velocity MFEM for Coupled Multiphase/Compositional Flow and Transport,” CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, Texas, Oct. 2009.
Urquhart, A., Eichhubl, P., Structural control on CO2 leakage in a natural reservoir analog: Little Grand Wash fault, Utah, FRAC industrial affiliate meeting, Austin, TX, November 17, 2009
Wheeler, M.F.: “Modeling multiphase non-Newtonian polymer flow in IPARS parallel framework,” Workshop: New Trends in Model Coupling Theory, Numerics, and Applications,” Paris, France, September 2009.
Wheeler, M.F.: “Welcome and Overview of CSM Activities,” Center for Subsurface Modeling Industrial Affiliates Meeting, University of Texas at Austin, October 2009.
Wheeler, M.F.: “Computational Environments for Coupling Multiphase Flow, Transport, and Geomechanics in Porous Media for Modeling Carbon Sequestration,” University of Delaware Colloquia, November 2009.
Wildey, T.: “A Multiscale Mortar Preconditioner with Applications to Nonlinear Interface Operators,” CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting, October 14, 2009.
Xue, G.: “Multipoint Flux Mixed Finite Element Method on Some Corner Point Grids,” Presented at the CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, Texas, Oct. 2009.
Xue, G.: “Unstructured Grid and Solvers for Multiphase Flow Problems,” Saudi Aramco Technology Quest, Upstream Innovation Symposium, Houston, Texas, November 2-4, 2009.
Juntunen, M.: “Finite Element Methods for the Brinkman Problem,” Presented at the CSM Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, Texas, Oct. 2009.
Leung, J.Y., Srinivasan, S., 2009, “Scale-up of Recovery Processes in Heterogeneous Reservoirs,” IAMG 2009 Conference, Stanford University, 23-28 August.
McKenna, S.A., 2010, Characterization and Modeling of Flow and Transport in Heterogeneous and Fractured Rocks, Joint National Energy Technologies Laboratory (NETL) Office of Research and Development and Sandia National Laboratories Geosciences Research and Applications Group Collaborative Research Workshops, April 6th & 7th
McKenna, S.A., 2010, Probabilistic Approaches to Modeling Groundwater Flow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, April 14th.
Sandia National Laboratories Geosciences Research and Applications Group Collaborative Research Workshops, Albuquerque, NM, 6 April, 2010.
Srinivasan, S., 2010, “Probing the temporal and spatial characteristics of sequestration processes over a cascade of scales,” USDOE-BES Geosciences Symposium, Gaithersburg, March 12-14.
Srinivasan, S., 2010, “Field scale characterization of CO2 sequestration processes – some perspectives,”, Graduate seminar series, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University, April 20th.
Stone, C.M. “Computational Framework for Multiphysics Coupling,” Presented at the University of Utah Energy Geosciences Institute, Salt Lake City, UT, January, 2010.
Stone, C.M. “Computational Framework for Coupled Multiphysics Modeling With An Emphasis on CO2 Sequestration,” Presented to National Energy Technology Laboratory Office of Research and Development, April, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: “Monitoring Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),” China university of Geosciences, Beijing, China, March 24, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: “Monitoring Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),” BGP, Zhuozhou, China, March 25, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: “Monitoring Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),” China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China, March 26, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: “Monitoring Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS),” RIPED, Beijing, China, March 29, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: “Monitoring Carbon Capture Use and Storage (CCUS),” Peking University, Beijing, China, March 30, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: National Energy and Technology Laboratory (NETL) Annual Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Meeting, scheduled May 10-13, 2010.
Bryant, S. Annual Research Review, joint industry project on Geological CO2 Sequestration (attendees from eight sponsoring companies plus Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the United States Geological Survey and the Texas Railroad Commission), Austin, TX, 22 January 2010.
Bryant, S., "Saving the Planet: Global Prosperity without Global Warming," ExploreUT
(billed as largest open house in Texas), Austin, TX,
6 March 2010.
Hovorka, S.: and R. Smyth, Report on activities of the regional DOE geosequestration partnerships, Annual Underground Injection Control (UIC) Conference of the Groundwater Protection Council, Austin, TX, January 25-27, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: “Results from the SECARB Phase III Early Test at Denbury's Cranfield Field,” SECARB 5th Annual Stakeholders Briefing, Atlanta, GA, March 9-10, 2010.
Hovorka, S.: The Gulf Coast Carbon Center (GCCC) annual meeting of its Industrial Associates, Austin, TX, January 21, 2010.
Heath, J., McPherson, B., and Dewers, T., Natural Noble Gases and Multiscale Assessment of Caprock Sealing Behavior, USGS Workshop on Caprocks and Seals in Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, CA January 12-15th 2010.
Dewers, T., Heath, J., and Pfeifle, T., Pore- to core-scale mudrock multiphysics. Presented at Joint National Energy Technologies Laboratory Office of Research and Development and
Dewers, T., and Bromhal, G., Pore Scale Processes, Presented at IEAGHG 2nd Modeling Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, February 16th, 2010.
Dewers, T. and Heath, J., Pore-scale transport and mechanical properties of mudrocks: Imaging, modeling and experiments. Geosciences Research Program, Basic Energy Sciences Symposia on Geophysics and Subsurface Fluid Flow, March 11-12, 2010, Gaithersburg, MA.
Duncan, I., "Carbon Management Challenges and Role of CCS and EOR" at the pre-workshop seminar Geological Storage Policy: Federal Impacts, Commercial Opportunities, of the workshop on Carbon and Climate Change, University of Texas Continuing Legal Education, Austin, TX, February 16-18, 2010.
Duncan, I., "Gulf Coast Stacked Storage Project," SECARB 5th Annual Stakeholders Briefing, Atlanta, GA, March 9-10, 2010.
Wheeler, M.F.: “Making Tomorrow’s Nobel Laureates,” Global Competiveness Forum, KAUST, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 25, 2010.
Wildey, T.: “Multiscale Mortar Preconditioners for Flow in Porous Media,” InterPore Annual Meeting, March 17, 2010
Wildey, T.: “Utilizing Multiscale Information in the Design Efficient Solvers for Stochastic and Nonlinear Interface Operators,” National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Feb. 3, 2010.
Xue, G.: “A Multiscale Mortar Multipoint Flux Mixed Finite Element Method for Subsurface Flow,” seminar at Beijing International Center for Mathematical Research, January 19, 2010.
Xue, G.: “Multipoint Flux Mixed Finite Element Method in Porous Media Applications,” Part I: “Introduction and Multiscale Mortar Extension” and Part II: “On Highly Distorted Hexahedra and Applications to Single and Two Phase Flow,” KAUST Winter Enrichment Program Workshop on Advanced Finite Element Methods with Applications in Numerical Reservoir Simulation, KAUST, Saudi Arabia, January 30-31, 2010.
al-Hinai, O., “Nonlinear acceleration methods for phase behavior and multiphase flow,” Institute for
Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Arbogast, T., “A new multiscale mortar domain decomposition for heterogeneous porous media,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Arbogast, T., “Mortar methods for flow in heterogeneous porous media,'' Santiago Numerico II, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, December 9-11, 2010. (INVITED)
Arbogast, T., “Mixed multiscale methods for heterogeneous elliptic problems: Part 1 - Introduction and background; Part 2 - Mixed multiscale numerics; Part 3 - Mixed multiscale mortar method, numerical analysis of multiscale problems,” London Mathematical Society-EPSRC Durham Symposium, Durham, England, UK, July 5-15, 2010. (INVITED)
Criscenti, L.J., J. Bracco, R.T. Cygan, “Molecular simulations of carbon dioxide and water: cation solvation and wettability,” American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Fall 2010.
Delshad, M., “Treatment of hysteresis and interfacial tension in sequestration of CO2 in saline aquifers,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26- 27, 2010.
Dewers, T., “Spatio-temporal self-organization in mudstones,”American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, CA, Fall 2010. (INVITED)
Florez, H., “Domain decomposition methods applied to coupled flow-geomechanics in reservoir simulation,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, TX, October 26 – 27, 2010.
Ganis, B., “Multiscale techniques for efficient uncertainty quantification in stochastic multiblock problems,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26- 27, 2010.
Juntunen, M., “Treating curved interfaces in flow modeling using multiblock gridpro meshes,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Pencheva, G., “A posteriori error estimation for locally conservative algorithms,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Rinehart, A., H. Yoon, T. Dewers, J. Heath, R. Petrusak, “Dual FIB-SEM 3-D imaging and lattice Boltzmann modeling of porosimetry and multiphase flow in chalk,” American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, CA, Fall 2010.
Wildey, T., “Novel geometric multigrid for multinumerics of unstructured grids,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Xue, G., “Iterative coupling of two-phase flow on general hexahedral grids,” SIAM Annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 12-16, 2010. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Multipoint flux methods for modeling multiphase flow on general hexahedra grids,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Xue, G., "Multipoint flux mixed finite element on general hexahedra," Finite Element Circus, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, November 5-6, 2010. (INVITED)
Santillan, E. U., K. Gilbert, P. C. Bennett: “Mineralogy and microbial survival during carbon sequestration”, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2010.
Tavakoli, R., “Multi-level parallelization of
ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) for automatic
reservoir history matching,” Institute for
Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for
Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial
Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Wang, B., “Coupled compositional flow and geomechanics parallel simulation,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Wheeler, M.F., “Accurate locally conservative discretizations for modeling multiphase flow in porous media on general hexahedra grids,” Proceedings of 11th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR) XII, Oxford, UK, September 6-9, 2010. (INVITED)
Wheeler, M.F., Overview of CSM Research and Outreach Activities, , Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates Meeting, Austin, TX, October 26 – 27, 2010.
Yuan, C., “Upscaling in polymer flooding EOR using parallel simulation,” Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) Annual Industrial Affiliates meeting, Austin, TX, October 26-27, 2010.
Wheeler, M.F.: “Multiscale Methods for Coupling Elasticity and Multiphase Flow in Porous Media,” Novel Multi-Scale Methods for Multi-Phase Porous Media Flow Meeting, International Center for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, January 2010.
Wheeler, M.F.: “Modeling Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers,” KAUST, January 30, 2010.
Wheeler, M.F.: “Iterative Coupling for Modeling Geomechanics,” KAUST, January 31, 2010.
Bishop, J.E. "A Computational Method for
Modeling Fracture in Disordered Media: From Single
Crack Growth to fragmentation", Sandia Fracture
Conference, December 14-15, 2010, Livermore, CA.
Pencheva, G. "A multiscale preconditioner for nonlinear multiphysics problems in porous media", SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011. (INVITED)
Sun, T., M.T. Balhoff, Y. Mehmani, “Mortar coupling of pore-scale models to reservoir simulators; a true multiscale approach,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 2011.
Tavakoli, R., “Multi-level parallelization of ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) for reservoir history matching," SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011. (INVITED)
Wheeler, M.F., Computational Frameworks for Subsurface Energy and Enviornmental Modeling and Simulation, Analytical and Numerical Methods for Multiscale Systems, Heidelberg, Germany, February 14-17, 2011. (INVITED)
Wheeler, M.F., S. Thomas, M. Delshad, “Domain decomposition for modeling flow and reactive transport in porous media,” SIAM Geoscience meeting mini-symposium, Long Beach, CA, March 21, 2011. (INVITED)
Wheeler, M.F., B. Wang, “Coupled compositional flow and geomechanics parallel simulation,” SIAM Geoscience meeting mini-symposium, Long Beach, CA, March 21, 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Preconditioning for mixed finite element formulation of elliptic problems with full tensor coefficient,” 20th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, UC San Diego in La Jolla, CA, February 7-11, 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Accurate cell-centered discretizations for modeling multiphase flow in porous media on general hexahedral and simplicial grids,” SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Woodlands, TX, February 21-23 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Accurate and efficient numerical methods for flow in porous media,” Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Tufts University, January 19, 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Accurate and efficient numerical methods for flow in porous media,” Seminar, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, February 3, 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Multiscale mortar multipoint flux mixed finite element methods for flow in porous media, mini-symposium on multiscale methods for porous media applications,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Local velocity post-processing for multipoint flux methods on general hexahedra,” Mini-symposium on Simulation, Optimization and Assimilation of Subsurface Reservoirs, SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011. (INVITED)
Xue, G., “Evaluating long term CO2 storage in saline aquifers,” the 3rd International Conference on Porous Media, Bordeaux, France, March 29-31, 2011. (INVITED)
Delshad, M., X. Kong, and M.F. Wheeler, “CO2 solubility as a function of pressure, temperature, and salinity and the impact on storage capacity,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011. (INVITED)
Arbogast, T., “Multiscale mortar methods for flow in heterogeneous porous media,” 20th International Conference on Domain Decomposition Methods, San Diego, CA, February 7-11, 2011. (INVITED)
Arbogast, T., “Multiscale mortar methods for flow in heterogeneous porous media,” SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Long Beach, CA, March 21-24, 2011. (INVITED)
Girault, V., G. Pencheva, T. Wildey, M.F. Wheeler, B. Wang, A. Mikelic, “Poroelasticity and elasticity with dg jumps and mortars,” SIAM Geoscience meeting mini-symposium, Long Beach, CA, March 21, 2011. (INVITED)
