Our Research
The reserach in our section falls into three categories: Geo-Energy, Geo-environmental Protection, and Computational Geosciences.
Geo-Energy
Our research on geo-energy explores methods to harness Earth's geothermal energy, advances the storage of liquid hydrogen in the subsurface, and studies the carbon footprint.
Geo-Environmental Protection
Industrial operations and anthopogenic interventions carry risks. Our research explores techniques to mitigate the impact of fossil fuel consumption, and analyzes the consequences of subsurface operations to reduce their future impact.
Computational Geoscience
The subsurface is mostly out of reach and out of sight. To rigorously analyse and predict the impact of subsurface operations, we advance research in data assimilation, optimization and control theory, and numerical simulation.
Our Publications
Below, you can access a list of our section's most recent publications.
- N Khoshnevis Gargar, AA Mailybaev, D Marchesin, J Bruining, The effect of composition on the role of evaporation during oil recovery by combustion
- BJ Meulenbroek, R Farajzadeh, J Bruining, The effect of interface movement and viscosity variation on the stability of a diffusive interface between aqueous and gaseous CO2, In Physics of Fluids Volume 25 p.1-22.
- JD Jansen, RM Fonseca, SS Kahrobaei, M Siraj, GM van Essen, P van den Hof, The egg model
- ME Donselaar, AG Bhatt, J Bruining, N Bose, AK Ghosh, The spatial distribution of arsenic contamination in fluvial sediment of the Ganges River: case study from Bihar, India, In Ingeokring Newsletter Volume 2013 p.44-47.
- LE Nonnekes, SJ Cox, WR Rossen, A 2d model for the effect of gas diffusion on mobility of foam for EOR, In ECMOR XIII - 13th European conference on the mathematics of oil recovery p.1-16, s.n..
- AS van Overveldt, H Guo, GLJ de Blok, P Bedrikovetsky, PLJ Zitha, A CT scan aided core-flood study of the leak-off process in oil-based drilling fluids, In Proceedings of the SPE international symposium and exhibition on formation damage control 2012 p.1053-1074, s.n..
- M Simjoo, Y Dong, A Andrianov, M Talanana, PLJ Zitha, A CT scan study of immiscible foam flow in porous media for EOR, In Proceedings of the SPE EOR conference at oil and gas West Asia 2012 p.1-19, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
- H Guo, PLJ Zitha, R Faber, M Buijse, A novel alkaline/surfactant/foam enhanced oil recovery process, In SPE Journal Volume 17 p.1186-1195.
- SA Vakili Ghahani, JD Jansen, A system-theoretical approach to selective grid coarsening of reservoir models, In Computational Geosciences: modeling, simulation and data analysis Volume 16 p.159-176.
- GM van Essen, PMJ van den Hof, JD Jansen, A two-level strategy to realize life-cycle production optimization in an operational setting, In SPE intelligent energy international p.1-11, Society of Petroleum Engineers.