Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Multicomponent Flow in Porous Media: Efficiency Analysis of Newton-Based Method

Newton’s method has been widely used in simulation multiphase, multicomponent flow in porous media. In addition, to solve systems of linear equations in such problems, the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) is often used. This paper analyzed the one-dimensional problem of multicomponent flu...

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Main Authors: Timur Imankulov, Danil Lebedev, Bazargul Matkerim, Beimbet Daribayev, Nurislam Kassymbek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Series:Fluids
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2311-5521/6/10/355
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Summary:Newton’s method has been widely used in simulation multiphase, multicomponent flow in porous media. In addition, to solve systems of linear equations in such problems, the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) is often used. This paper analyzed the one-dimensional problem of multicomponent fluid flow in a porous medium and solved the system of the algebraic equation with the Newton-GMRES method. We calculated the linear equations with the GMRES, the GMRES with restarts after every m steps—GMRES (m) and preconditioned with Incomplete Lower-Upper factorization, where the factors L and U have the same sparsity pattern as the original matrix—the ILU(0)-GMRES algorithms, respectively, and compared the computation time and convergence. In the course of the research, the influence of the preconditioner and restarts of the GMRES (m) algorithm on the computation time was revealed; in particular, they were able to speed up the program.
ISSN:2311-5521