Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

The project has industrial collaborations with Total, GDFSuez EP and Storengy on oil and gas recovery and gas storage.

The collaboration with Andra is concerned with the modelling and the simulation of mass and heat exchanges between porous media and ventilation channels. It leads to consider porous medium equations and hydrodynamic systems, coupled through intricate boundary conditions. Clearly one of the difficulties relies on the multiphase nature of the flows (at least water and air are present). We identify relevant physical scales, typical of the flows under consideration in nuclear waste engineering. We start by dealing with quite simple geometries, in order to discuss properly the order of magnitude of the different phenomena, and to design suitable schemes.

COFFEE has also a collaboration with BRGM, funded through the program “Carnot Institutes”, devoted to the setting of a parallel computing platform for the simulation of geothermal reservoirs. We aim at contributing to the design of a new generation of parallel tools of simulations, addressing the stiffness issues of actual reservoirs, a large variety of mesh geometries, able to handle faulted media.

A large part of these works is based on the development of the software COMPASS.