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An Autonomic Reservoir Framework for the Stochastic Optimization of Well Placement

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The adequate location of wells in oil and environmental applications has a significant economic impact on reservoir management. However, the determination of optimal well locations is both challenging and computationally expensive. The overall goal of this research is to use the emerging Grid infrastructure to realize an autonomic self-optimizing reservoir framework. In this paper, we present a policy-driven peer-to-peer Grid middleware substrate to enable the use of the Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation (SPSA) optimization algorithm, coupled with the Integrated Parallel Accurate Reservoir Simulator (IPARS) and an economic model to find the optimal solution for the well placement problem.

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    Wolfgang Bangerth, Hector Klie & Mary F. Wheeler

  2. The Applied Software Systems Laboratory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

    Vincent Matossian & Manish Parashar

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Wolfgang Bangerth is a postdoctoral research fellow at both the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and the Institute for Geophyics, at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 2002. He is the project leader for the deal.II finite element library (http://www.dealii.org). Wolfgang is a member of SIAM, AAAS, and ACM.

Hector Klie obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computational Science and Engineering at Rice University, 1996, he completed his Master and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science at the Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela in 1991 and 1989, respectively. Hector Klie's main research interests are in the development of efficient parallel linear and nonlinear solvers and optimization algorithms for large-scale transport and flow of porous media problems. He currently holds the position of Associate Director and Senior Research Associate in the Center for Subsurface Modeling at the Institute of Computational Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Klie is current member of SIAM, SPE and SEG.

Vincent Matossian obtained a Masters in applied physics from the French Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Vincent is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in distributed systems at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University under the guidance of Manish Parashar. His research interests include information discovery and ad-hoc communication paradigms in decentralized systems.

Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he also is director of the Applied Software Systems Laboratory. He received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He has received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004–2005), NSF CAREER Award (1999) and the Enrico Fermi Scholarship from Argonne National Laboratory (1996). His research interests include autonomic computing, parallel & distributed computing (including peer-to-peer and Grid computing), scientific computing, software engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program (2004–2007), and a member of ACM.

Mary Fanett Wheeler obtained her Ph.D. at Rice University in 1971. Her primary research interest is in the numerical solutions of partial differential systems with applications to flow in porous media, geomechanics, surface flow, and parallel computation. Her numerical work includes formulation, analysis and implementation of finite-difference/finite-element discretization schemes for nonlinear, coupled PDE's as well as domain decomposition iterative solution methods. She has directed the Center for Subsurface Modeling, The University of Texas at Austin, since its creation in 1990. Dr. Wheeler is recepient of the Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering and is Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics and in the Department of Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering of The University of Texas

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Bangerth, W., Klie, H., Matossian, V. et al. An Autonomic Reservoir Framework for the Stochastic Optimization of Well Placement. Cluster Comput 8, 255–269 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-005-4093-3

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