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The numerical simulation of the flow in oil reservoirs has become, over decades, a standard tool applied by the oil and gas industry to forecast the behavior of a hydrocarbon producing field. To reduce the computational effort of these simulations, which in general demand more time as the case studied becomes more realistic, like other researchers, we use high-performance computing techniques in reservoir simulation. In this context, the main contribution of this work is the proposal of a strategy for the numerical simulation of non-isothermal flow in oil reservoirs using an operator splitting, the OpenMP, a coprocessor, and a one-equation model for temperature without the need to consider local thermal equilibrium. Throughout the development of this work, we used a non-isothermal flow modeling in porous media, the control-volume finite-difference method for discretization, and a linearization of the non-linear algebraic equations by Picard’s method. Our main objective was the parallelization of the numerical code using the OpenMP and, from the variation in the number of threads used in the simulations, we were able to reach speedups higher than 45 in some cases.
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The authors gratefully thanks Rio de Janeiro State University, Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)-Finance Code 001, and National Council for Scientific and Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) for their support.
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Werneck, L.F., Heringer, J.D.d.S., de Souza, G. et al. Numerical simulation of non-isothermal flow in oil reservoirs using a coprocessor and the OpenMP. Comp. Appl. Math. 42, 365 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40314-023-02496-3
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