Large deformation near surface excavations and openings has been frequently simulated in
geotechnical problems. Mesh-based approaches for large-scale simulation have long been …

As a new type of heat transport medium with high efficiency and high heat transfer
performance, nanofluids can effectively improve the heat transfer performance of thermal …

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plays an important role in the optimal design of aircraft
and the analysis of complex flow mechanisms in the aerospace domain. The graphics …

Abstract Characterization of rock properties in shale gas reservoirs is vitally important for
production forecasting and reserve estimation of natural gas in an efficiently and …

Manufacturers have been developing new graphics processing unit (GPU) nodes with large
capacity, high bandwidth memory and very high bandwidth intra-node interconnects. This …

Pore-scale modeling is essential for understanding the transport and storage mechanisms of
hydrocarbons in shale formations, as well as the estimation of petrophysical properties, the …

In addition to intrinsic matrix pores, ranging in size from submicrons to microns, vuggy
carbonates often contain significantly larger vug spaces. Immiscible multiphase fluids …

This bachelor thesis presents a method to parallelise the Lattice Boltzmann method on
several graphics processing units by coupling it with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) …

In the past decades, exploration and production activities gradually shift to unconventional
resources such as tight gas reservoirs. However, the techniques for reservoir simulation and …

Abstract Characterization of rock and fluid properties is vital in producing oil and gas from
reservoirs in an economically viable fashion. Digital rock physics for the estimation of …