Geological Storage of CO2 – Modeling Approaches for Large–Scale Simulation

JAN M. NORDBOTTEN is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Bergen, Norway, and holds a visiting appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University since 2003. He is the inaugural recipient of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Geosciences (SIAG/GS) Junior Science Prize in 2009, and remains the youngest ever to achieve a PhD in Norway. Professor Nordbotten's research interests span applied mathematics in the broadest sense, covering mathematical modeling, analysis, simulation, and applications. MICHAEL A. CELIA is the Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, where he also recently served as Department Chair. Professor Celia is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAS). He received the 2005 AGU Hydrologic Sciences Award, was the 2008 Darcy Lecturer for the National Ground Water Association, and was the 2010 Pioneers in Groundwater Lecturer for the American Society of Civil Engineers. He served for ten years as editor of the journal Advances in Water Resources, and was a contributing author for the IPCC Working Group II Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. His research interests include flow in porous media, numerical simulation, groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology, and carbon sequestration.

Prologue vii 1. The Carbon Problem 1 2. Single-Phase Flow in Porous Media 17 3. Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media 67 4. Large-Scale Models 115 5. Solution Approaches 153 6. Models for CO2 Storage and Leakage 195 Epilogue 225 Appendix 227 Index 237