Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Kang, M.; Nordbotten, J. M.; Doster, F.; Celia, M. A. Analytical solutions for two-phase subsurface flow to a leaky fault considering vertical flow effects and fault properties. Water Resources Research, 50(4): 3536-3552, 2014, DOI:10.1002/2013WR014628.
  2. Nordbotten, J. M., Finite volume hydromechanical simulation in porous media. Water Resources Research 50(5): 4379-4394, 2014, DOI:10.1002/2013WR015179.
  3. Sandve, T. H.; Keilegavlen, E.; Nordbotten, J. M., Physics-based preconditioners for flow in fractured porous media. Water Resources Research, 50(2): 1357-1373, 2014, DOI: 10.1002/2012WR013034.
  4. Celia, MA; Bachu, S; Nordbotten, J.M.; Bandilla, KW., Status of CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers with emphasis on modeling approaches and practical simulations. Water Resources Research 51(9): 6846-6892, 2015. DOI:10.1002/2015WR017609.
  5. Keilegavlen, E.; Nordbotten, J.M., Inexact linear solvers for control volume discretizations in porous media. Computational Geosciences 19(1): 159-176, 2015. DOI:10.1007/s10596-014-9453-8.
  6. Aavatsmark, I.; Kometa, B.K.; Gasda, S.E.; Sandve, T.H.; Nilsen H.M., A generalized cubic equation of state with application to pure CO2 injection in aquifers. Computational Geosciences, 20(3): 623-635, 2016 DOI:10.1007/s10596-015-9537-0.
  7. Nordbotten, J.M., Stable cell-centered finite volume discretization for Biot equations. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, 54: 942-968, 2016. DOI:10.1137/15M1014280
  8. Bjørnarå, T.I.; Nordbotten, J.M.; Park, J., Vertically integrated models for coupled two-phase flow and geomechanics in porous media. Water Resources Research, 52(2): 1398-1417, 2016. DOI:10.1002/2015WR017290.
  9. Boon, W.; Balbarini, N.; Binning, P. J.; Nordbotten, J. M., Efficient water table evolution discretization using domain transformation. Computational Geosciences, 21(3), 2017 doi:10.1007/s10596-016-9597-9.
  10. Balbarini, N., Boon, W., Ellen Nicolajsen, E., Nordbotten, J.M., Bjerg, P.L., Binning, P.J., A 3-D numerical model of the influence of meanders on groundwater discharge to a gaining stream in an unconfined sandy aquifer. Journal of Hydrology, 552: 169-181, 2017. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.06.042
  11. Wangen, M., A 2D volume conservative numerical model of hydraulic fracturing. Computers & Structures 182: 448-458, 2017. DOI:10.1016/j.compstruc.2017.01.003.
  12. Wangen, M.; Halvorsen, G.; Gasda, S.E.; Bjørnarå, T.I. An analytical plane-strain solution for surface uplift due to pressurized reservoirs. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 13: 25-34, 2018. DOI:10.1016/j.gete.2018.03.002.
  13. Flemisch, B., Berre, I., Boon, W., Fumagalli, A., Schwenck, N., Scotti, A., Stefansson, I., Tatomir, A., Benchmarks for single-phase flow in fractured porous media. Advances in Water Resources, 111: 239-258, 2018. DOI:10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.10.036
  14. Boon, W.M.; Nordbotten, J.M.; Yotov, I. Robust Discretization of Flow in Fractured Porous Media. SIAM J. Numerical Analysis, 56(4): 2203-2333, 2018. https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/17M1139102
  15. Nooraiepour, M., Fazeli, H., Miri, R., Hellevang, H., Effect of CO2 phase states and flow rate on salt precipitation in shale caprocks — a microfluidic study. Environmental Science & Technology, 52(10): 6050-6060. DOI:10.1021/acs.est.8b00251
  16. Gasda, S.E., Aavatsmark, I., Estimation of reduced pressure buildup due to brine seepage using a convolution technique. Computational Geosciences, 1-16. DOI:10.1007/s10596-019-09857-0
  17. Fazeli, H., Patel, R., Hellevang, H., Effect of Pore-Scale Mineral Spatial Heterogeneity on Chemically Induced Alterations of Fractured Rock: A Lattice Boltzmann Study, Geofluids, 2018. DOI: 10.1155/2018/6046182.
  18. Fazeli, H., Patel, R., Ellis, B.R., Hellevang, H. Three-Dimensional Pore-Scale Modeling of Fracture Evolution in Heterogeneous Carbonate Caprock Subjected to CO2-Enriched Brine, Environmental Science & Technology  53 (8), 4630-4639, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b05653

Theses

  1. Boon. W. Conforming Discretizations of Mixed-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations. PhD Thesis, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, 2018.
  2. Varela, J. Implementation of an MPFA/MPSA-FV Solver for the Unsaturated Flow in Deformable Porous Media. Master Thesis, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, 2018.

Conference Papers and Extended Abstracts

  1. Bjørnarå, T.I.; Mathias, S.A.; Nordbotten, J.M.; Park, J., Fast Evaluation of Fluid-rock Coupling in CO2 Storage. Fourth EAGE CO2 Geological Storage Workshop 22-24 April, 2014.
  2. Gasda, S. E.; Gray, W.; Dahle, H. K., Vertically integrated models with coupled thermal processes (171 downloads ) . 14th European Conference on Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Catania, Italy, 8-11 September 2014.
  3. Aavatsmark, I; Kometa, B.K.; Gasda, S.E., Thermal simulation of CO2 storage with generalized cubic equation of state (166 downloads ) . 14th European Conference on Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Catania, Italy, 8-11 September 2014.
  4. Abbas, M.; Bohloli, B.; Skurtveit, E.; Mondol, N.H.; Grande, L., Brazilian tensile strength test: post-failure behavior of Jurassic and Cretaceous shales from Svalbard (882 downloads ) , EAGE extended abstract, 77th EAGE conference & Exhibition 2015, Madrid IFEMA, Spain, 1-4 June 2015.
  5. Wangen, M.; Yarushina, V.,  A numerical model of hydraulic fracturing observed during injection testing of a well in Adventdalen, Svalbard. (180 downloads ) , EAGE extended abstract, 77th EAGE conference & Exhibition 2015, Madrid IFEMA, Spain, 1-4 June 2015.
  6. Bohloli, B.; Skurtveit, E.; Choi, J.C.; Grande, L.; Soldal, M.; Wilkinson, H.D. Shear Strength Parameters of Cretaceous Shales from the Cap-rock of the Longyearbyen CO2 Storage Pilot, Svalbard (243 downloads ) , EAGE extended abstract, 2nd EAGE Workshop on Geomechanics and Energy, Celle, Germany, 13-15 October 2015.
  7. M. Wangen, S.E. Gasda, T.I. Bjørnarå, Geomechanical consequences of large-scale fluid storage in the Utsira Formation in the North Sea (85 downloads ) , in Proceedings of EGU General Assembly 2016, EGU Division Energy, Resources & Environment, Energy Procedia, 97: 486-493, 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2016.10.056.
  8. S.E. Gasda, M. Wangen, T. Bjørnarå, M. Elenius, Investigation of caprock integrity due to pressure build-up during high-volume injection into the Utsira formation (99 downloads ) , GHGT-13, 14-18 Nov 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  9. S. Tveit, T. Mannseth, M. Jakobsen, Discriminating time-lapse saturation and pressure changes in CO2 monitoring from seismic waveform and CSEM data using ensemble-based Bayesian inversion (116 downloads ) , SEG Extended abstract, 2016.
  10. Aavatsmark, I., Gasda, S.E., Estimation of reduced pressure build-up due to brine seepage using a convolution technique. In Proceedings of ECMOR XVI – 16th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery, 3–6 September 2018, Barcelona, Spain. DOI:10.3997/2214-4609.201802270

Reports

  1. Wilkinson, H. D.; Bohloli, B.; Walta, A.; Soldal, M., Mobilization of the high stress direct shear box–progress report, NGI Technical Note 20130614-01-TN, 27 November 2014.
  2. Viken, I.; Sauvin, G.; Park, J.,  Feasibility study of gravity data for monitoring CO2 leakage in overburden, NGI Report 20130614-01-R , 26 November 2014.

Presentations

  1.  J. Park, M. Vanneste, I.K. Waarum, P.M. Sparrevik, G. Sauvin, CSEM Data Sensitivity for Shallow Resistivity Anomaly (169 downloads ) , 1st Applied Shallow Marine Geophysics Conference, 14-18 September 2014, Athens, Greece.
  2. S.E. Gasda, W.G. Gray, H.K. Dahle, Vertically integrated models with coupled thermal processes, AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA.
  3. S.E. Gasda, W.G. Gray, Integrated models with coupled thermal processes, 7th International Conference on Porous Media (interPore), 18-21 May 2015, Padua, Italy.
  4. S.E. Gasda, M. Wangen, T.I. Bjørnarå, M. Elenius, Investigation of caprock integrity during high-volume injection into the Utsira Formation (121 downloads ) , AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14-19 December 2015.
  5. Mannseth, T. Model-based parameterization and ensemble-based parameter estimation. Exploring the earth 2015.
  6. Tveit, S.; Bakr, S.A.; Lien, M.; Mannseth, T., Ensemble-based Bayesian inversion of CSEM data. Exploring the earth 2015.
  7. W. Boon, J.M. Nordbotten, Robust Discretizations of Flow in Fractured Porous Media (99 downloads ) , IMA Conference on Numerical Methods for Simulation. Oxford, September 2015.
  8. W. Boon, J.M. Nordbotten, Robust Discretizations of Flow in Fractured Porous Media (99 downloads ) , eXtended Discretization MethodS (X-DMS). Ferrara, September 2015.
  9. S.E. Gasda, Keeping CO2 safely stored (176 downloads ) . CLIMIT Summit 2017, Soria Moria Hotel, Holmekolmen, Norway, 7-8 March, 2017.
  10. Gasda, S.E.; Wangen, M.; Bjørnarå, TI., Model comparison for geomechanical simulation of large-scale CO2 storage (158 downloads ) . 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting (InterPore), Rotterdam, Netherlands, 8-11 May, 2017.
  11. Tveit, S.; Mannseth, T.; Park, J.; Sauvin, G.; Agersborg, R., Joint Utilization of Geophysical Data Types, with Application to Monitoring of CO2 Injection in the Skade Formation, EnKF Workshop, Bergen, May, 2018.

Posters

  1. W. Boon, J.M. Nordbotten, Robust Discretizations of Flow in Fractured Porous Media, (90 downloads ) , SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences. Stanford, June 2015.
  2. S.E. Gasda, M. Wangen, T. Bjørnarå, M. Elenius, Pressure-constrained CO2 storage capacity of the Utsira Formation (79 downloads ) , GRC Flow and Transport in Permeable Media, 31 July – 5 August 2016, Girona, Spain.
  3. M. Wangen, S.E. Gasda, T.I. Bjørnarå, Geomechanical consequences of large-scale fluid storage in the Utsira Formation in the North Sea (76 downloads ) ,  EGU General Assembly 2016, April 2016, Vienna, Austria.