PorousFlow: a multiphysics simulation code for coupled problems in porous media

Green, Christopher P.; Ennis‐King, Jonathan

doi:10.21105/joss.02176

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“…11) between the injected gas (hydrogen) and the resident formation fluid (brine) on the hydrogen plume migration during the seasonal storage period, we numerically simulate the injection of 10-ton kg of hydrogen over 10 days and its storage for 35 days. We used the numerical simulator PorousFlow Module, open-source software for solving parallel tightly coupled nonlinear THM processes in porous media (Wilkins et al 2021;Wilkins et al 2020). It is based on the MOOSE framework (Gaston et al 2009) and its internal architecture relies on state-of-the-art libraries for finite element analysis (Kirk et al 2006) and nonlinear iterative algebraic solvers (Balay et al 2019).…”

Section: Depleted Hydrocarbon Reservoirsmentioning

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Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

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Dihydrogen (H2), commonly named ‘hydrogen’, is increasingly recognised as a clean and reliable energy vector for decarbonisation and defossilisation by various sectors. The global hydrogen demand is projected to increase from 70 million tonnes in 2019 to 120 million tonnes by 2024. Hydrogen development should also meet the seventh goal of ‘affordable and clean energy’ of the United Nations. Here we review hydrogen production and life cycle analysis, hydrogen geological storage and hydrogen utilisation. Hydrogen is produced by water electrolysis, steam methane reforming, methane pyrolysis and coal gasification. We compare the environmental impact of hydrogen production routes by life cycle analysis. Hydrogen is used in power systems, transportation, hydrocarbon and ammonia production, and metallugical industries. Overall, combining electrolysis-generated hydrogen with hydrogen storage in underground porous media such as geological reservoirs and salt caverns is well suited for shifting excess off-peak energy to meet dispatchable on-peak demand.

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Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

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“…We applied the open source finite element modeling framework MOOSE to solve the forward poroelastic model (Wilkins et al, 2020).…”

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“…We have limited our study to the small and linear poroelastic deformation mechanism. We applied the open source finite element modeling framework MOOSE to solve the forward poroelastic model (Wilkins et al., 2020).…”

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Toward Retrieving Distributed Aquifer Hydraulic Parameters From Distributed Strain Sensing

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“…It was optimised to model three-dimensional THM processes in fractured rock (Freymark et al, 2019). However, a more robust implementation is Porous Flow, an embedded MOOSE library to simulate multi-phase flow and THMC processes in porous media (Wilkins et al, 2020). Porous Flow has been verified and applied to simulate a number of complex and realistic systems, for example shallow geothermal systems (Birdsell and Saar, 2020), CO 2 sequestration (Green et al, 2018) and groundwater modelling with plastic deformation (Herron et al, 2018).…”

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“…We accomplished this by introducing material properties that can allocate data at each mesh element. Furthermore, we integrated the multi-physics of Section 2 to RHEA by adding the Porous Flow (Wilkins et al, 2020) and…”

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RHEA v1.0: Enabling fully coupled simulations with hydro-geomechanical heterogeneity

Bastias¹,

Rau²,

Blum³

2021

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Abstract. Realistic modelling of tightly coupled hydro-geomechanical processes is relevant for the assessment of many hydrological and geotechnical applications. Such processes occur in geologic formations and are influenced by natural heterogeneity. Current numerical libraries offer capabilities and physics couplings that have proven to be valuable in many geotechnical fields like gas storage, rock fracturing and Earth resources extraction. However, implementation and verification of full heterogeneity of subsurface properties using high resolution field data in coupled simulations has not been done before. We develop, verify and document RHEA (Real HEterogeneity App), an open-source, fully coupled, finite-element application capable of including element-resolution hydro-geomechanical properties in coupled simulations. We propose a simple, yet powerful workflow to allow the incorporation of fully distributed hydro-geomechanical properties. We then verify the code with analytical solutions in one and two dimensions, and propose a benchmark semi-analytical problem to verify heterogeneous systems with sharp gradients. Finally, we demonstrate RHEA's capabilities with a comprehensive example including realistic properties. With this we demonstrate that RHEA is a verified open-source application able to include complex geology to perform scalable, fully coupled, hydro-geomechanical simulations. Our work is a valuable tool to assess challenging real world hydro-geomechanical systems that may include different levels of complexity like heterogeneous geology with several time and spatial scales and sharp gradients produced by contrasting subsurface properties.

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PorousFlow: a multiphysics simulation code for coupled problems in porous media

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

Hydrogen production, storage, utilisation and environmental impacts: a review

Toward Retrieving Distributed Aquifer Hydraulic Parameters From Distributed Strain Sensing

RHEA v1.0: Enabling fully coupled simulations with hydro-geomechanical heterogeneity

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