1. Applications   Subsurface Flow Modeling   Modeling of Petroleum and Natural Gas Reservoirs   CO 2 Sequestration   Hydraulic Fracturing   Well Production Algorithms & Modeling   Complex Physical and Geomechanical Modeling   Model Calibration and Verification   High Performance Computing Funding: DOF, NSF, CP, … CSM Research Joining and branching of hydraulic fractures (blue) in porous media using a phase field approach (initial fractures formulated by a probability map). Mary Wheeler Director Affiliated Faculty Todd Arbogast Mojdeh Delshad Research Staff: Omar Al Hinai, Nikolaos Bouklas, Ben Ganis, Gergina Pencheva

2. CO 2 Storage Options

3. Numerical simulation   Characterization (faults, fractures)   Appropriate gridding   Compositional EOS   Parallel computing capability Key processes   CO 2 /brine mass transfer   Multiphase flow During injection (pressure driven) After injection (gravity driven)   Geochemical reactions   Geomechanical modeling CO 2 Sequestration Modeling Approach - CSM