Searching for talented candidates with strong numerical skills (Reservoir Simulation / CFD), who are eager to engage in research topics of relevance for both industry and academia.
Desired Fundamentals
Reservoir Engineering
Classification of Petroleum Reservoirs
Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Reservoirs
Reservoir Rock & Fluid Properties
Fundamentals of Fluid Flow through Porous Media
Primary and Secondary Migration Mechanism
Primary and Secondary Recovery Mechanism
Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes
Determination of Oil & Gas in Place
Transient Well Pressure Analysis
Decline Curve Analysis
Reservoir Performance Analysis
Reservoir Simulation
Concept of a Reservoir Simulator
Black Oil Model
Partial Differential Equations (Parabolic & Hyperbolic)
Diffusivity Equation
Fractional Flow Equation
Buckley – Leverett Equation
Frontal Advance Equation
Finite Difference Discretization Scheme
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Outline of Research Problems for Petroleum / Chemical / Mechanical /Civil / Aero-space Engineers:
Numerical Modeling on the Reservoir Production Performance of Shale Gas Reservoirs.
Numerical Modeling on the Enhanced Recovery of Methane Production associated with the Coal Bed Methane Reservoirs.
Numerical Modeling on the Reservoir Efficiency of various Trapping Mechanisms associated with CO2 Sequestration in a heterogeneous Deep Saline Aquifer.
Numerical Modeling on the Thermal / Microbial / Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery Processes resulting from Improved Displacement and Sweep Efficiencies.
Numerically solving the coupled non-linear partial differential equations that describe the integrated low-salinity water flooding and microbially enhanced oil recovery under non-isothermal conditions in a fractured petroleum reservoir.
Numerical modeling of low salinity water flooding in a sandstone / carbonate reservoir: Developing 2-D, 2-Phase, Buckley Leverett Model.
Numerically modeling on coupled CO2 and Low-salinity water flooding in porous / fractured reservoirs: Influence of salinity on gas injection patterns with reference to MMP in order to investigate the recovery and utilization factors.
Numerically solving the coupled non-linear partial differential equations that describe the thermally enhanced oil recovery using in-situ combustion from a porous / fractured heavy oil reservoir.
Numerical modeling of fractured shale gas / tight gas reservoirs: Investigating the interaction between propped primary hydraulic fractures and secondary stress-release fracture systems in order to deduce the optimum fracture completion.
Buckley-Leverett analysis that describes oil-water flow through a completely saturated porous medium in horizontal direction in order to investigate the position of a particular saturation as a function of time; and to analyze the characteristics of saturation profiles in detail by solving the BL oil displacement problem numerically using finite-difference / finite-volume scheme.
Numerically solving the coupled non-linear partial differential equations that describe the shale gas flow through nano-pores by considering Knudsen diffusion, slippage effect, gas desorption, and gas diffusive flux from kerogen bulk.
Propose a numerical solution for a well in a dual-porosity reservoir in order to investigate the characteristics of drawdown profiles associated with a Pressure Transient Analysis (PTA) of a fractured reservoir.
Numerically solve the two-dimensional, multi-phase fluid flow in a typical petroleum reservoir using IMPES solution technique for various boundary conditions using FD or FV scheme. (A) Oil-Water Simulation; (B) Saturated Oil-Gas Simulation; (C) Under-Saturated Oil-Gas Simulation.
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Outline of Research Problems for Civil / Environmental / Chemical / Ocean Engineers:
Numerical modeling: Bioremediation of marine sediments contaminated by hydrocarbons.
Numerical modelling on the formation, burial and decomposition, reformation and distribution of methane hydrates in the marine environment.
Numerical modelling of methane hydrate and free gas accumulation in marine sediments considering geo-chemical constituents involving sedimentation/erosion and consolidation under non-isothermal conditions: Investigating the formation and dissociation of methane hydrates based on the proportion of hydrate growth Vs total methane; and seepage of methane.
Numerical modeling of aerobic and anaerobic biodegradation processes at a crude oil spill site.
Numerical modeling of biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in oil-contaminated beach sediments treated with nutrient amendments.
Numerical model for the biodegradation of low solubility hydrocarbons.
Numerical model for the biodegradation kinetics of oil droplets (Deepwater horizon oil spill).
Numerical model development for predicting relative permeability-saturation-capillary pressure relationships of oil-water systems in porous / fractured media with mixed wettability.
Numerical modeling of chemical EOR processes (Multi-phase, Multi-component, Multi-species Reactive Transport Model).
Numerical model development for predicting spatial and temporal concentration distributions of BTEX dissolution and biodegradation in order to investigate the limitations of Raoul’s Law in a fractured aquifer.
Numerical modeling groundwater contaminants by organic pollutants in a fractured aquifer.
Numerical modeling: Tidal influence on BTEX biodegradation in coastal aquifers.
Unsaturated flow and transport (numerical) models in nutrient and pesticide management.
Numerical modelling of fluid flow through a coupled unsaturated and saturated sub-surface system: Groundwater recharge estimation.
Numerical modelling of multi-dimensional multi-species reactive solute transport through a coupled unsaturated and saturated sub-surface system: Reactive transport of sub-surface pollutants during an artificial groundwater recharge process.
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Outline of Research Problems for Civil / Mechanical / Petroleum Engineers:
Numerical modeling of non-isothermal fluid flow associated with a fractured geothermal reservoir.
Numerical modeling of quartz / calcite precipitation induced fracture aperture changes associated with a fractured geothermal reservoir.
Numerical modeling of Thermal EOR by SAGD / Hot-water-drive / Steam-drive / Cyclic-steam-injection.
Numerical modeling coupled fluid flow and geo-mechanics associated with a fractured petroleum reservoir.
Numerical modelling of hydraulic fracturing (hydro-geo-mechanical model) on oil sands.
Numerical modelling on the stability of hydraulic fracture propagation.
Numerical modelling on the sensitivity of thermo-poro-elastic stresses on fracture propagation from a wellbore and its associated reservoir: Investigation on the direction of crack growth as a function of minimum/maximum principal stresses influenced by pore pressure and temperature changes.
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Ph.D & MS(Research) Programme – IIT Madras
https://research.iitm.ac.in/
Post-Doctoral Fellowship @ IIT-Madras
https://www.iitm.ac.in/content/post-doctoral-fellowship-iit-madras
POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAK IN CAREER
https://www.iitm.ac.in/content/post-doctoral-fellowship-women-break-career
Ph.D. / M.S – ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS – IIT-Madras:
https://www.iitm.ac.in/sites/default/files/uploads/msphd_ordinances_regulations_26-06-14.doc
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Prof. Suresh Kumar Govindarajan – IIT Madras
http://www.doe.iitm.ac.in/gskumar/
http://www.doe.iitm.ac.in/gskumar/other-responsibilities/
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Post-Doc-Ph-D-M-S-Positions
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Prof. G. Suresh Kumar
Our Research Group
Research Scholars:
1. Natarajan (CE07D011) – Ph D (Awarded 2012)
2. Berlin (CE10D010) – Ph D (Awarded 2012)
3. Tushar Sharma (OE10D017) – Ph D (Awarded 2015)
4. Vasudevan (CE10D005) – Ph D (Awarded 2015)
5. Srinivasa Reddy Devarapu (OE11D019) – Ph D (Awarded 2015)
6. Rajesh Kanna (OE11D005) – Ph D (Awarded 2016)
7. Samarth Patwardhan (OE12D009) – Ph D (Awarded 2016)
8. Mohana Sundaram (CE09D011) – Ph D (Awarded 2017)
9. P Sivasankar (OE12D024) – Ph D (Awarded 2018)
10. V Renu (OE13D038) – Ph D (Awarded 2019)
11. R Vivek (OE13D010) – Ph D (Awarded 2019)
12. Omkar Goenkar (CE13D033) – Ph D (Awarded 2019)
13. Abhishek Kumar (OE14D001) – Ph D (Ongoing)
14. Sridharan Chandrasekaran (OE14D033) – Ph D (Ongoing)
15. Avanish Mishra (OE15D037) – Ph D (Ongoing)
16. B Rajasekhar (CE14D035) – Ph D (Ongoing)
17. Nitha Ayinippully Nalarajan (CE15D007) – Ph D (Ongoing)
18. Subhashini Nainar (OE16D004) – Ph D (Ongoing)
19. Susmit Chakraborty (BT16D301) – Ph D (Ongoing)
20. Vinod Kumar Singh (OE17D028) – Ph D (Ongoing)
21. Divya T (CE17D035) – Ph D (Ongoing)
22. Rockey Abhishek (OE12S031) – M S (Awarded 2015)
23. Nikhil (OE12S025) – M S (Awarded 2015)
24. Rakesh (OE13S007) – M S (Awarded 2016)
25. Tapan Kidambi (OE14S018) ) – M S (Awarded 2017)
26. Vijay Kumar B (OE15S008) ) – M S (Awarded 2017)
27. Awez Hanegaoukar (OE14S022) ) – M S (Awarded 2018)
28. Sugumar L (OE12S010) ) – M S (Awarded 2019)
29. Shantanu Savita Pandey (OE16S014) – M S (Ongoing)
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Candidates applying for Ph D / M S positions must clear the written test on Fluid Mechanics conducted by the Dept of Ocean Engineering – before becoming eligible for interview. Follow http://www.doe.iitm.ac.in/ for details.
WRITTEN TEST
Basic concepts of fluid flow:- (a) kinematics – methods of describing fluid motion ; classification of flows; streamline, Streak-line and path-lines; stream function and velocity potentials; flow nets; (b) Dynamics – dimensional concepts of system and control volume; application of control Volume to continuity, energy and momentum; Euler’s equation of motion along a stream line; Bernoulli’s equation; applications to velocity and discharge measurements.
Incompressible viscous flow:- Laminar flow between parallel plates, and pipes ; development of laminar and turbulent flows In pipes; Reynold’s experiment; Darcy-Weisbach equation; Moody diagram; Major and minor losses of flow in pipes; pipes in series and in parallel.
Boundary layer:-Definition of boundary layers; displacement, momentum and energy thickness; laminar and Turbulent boundary layers; momentum integral equation; separation of boundary layer; drag and lift; lift characteristics of airfoils; induced drag; polar diagram.
Flow through Pipes:- Definition, laminar and turbulent flow explained through Reynold’s Experiment. Reynolds Number., critical velocity and velocity distribution. Head Losses in pipe lines due to friction, sudden expansion and sudden contraction entrance, exit, obstruction and change of direction. Hydraulic gradient line and total energy line.
INTERVIEW
Reservoir Engineering & Reservoir Simulation.
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Useful Links:
Flow and Transport Equations: http://www.siam.org/books/textbooks/cs02sample.pdf
Fluid Flow in Porous Media: http://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/…/Fluid%20Flow%20in%20Porous%20Media.pdf
Handbook of Porous Media: http://www.inf.ufes.br/~luciac/fem/Handbook%20of%20Porous%20Media.pdf
The Finite Volume Method: http://ftp.demec.ufpr.br/disciplinas/TM701/Versteeg%20H%20K%20,%20Malalasekera%20W%20Introduction%20To%20Computational%20Fluid%20Dynamics%20The%20Finite%20Volume%20Method%20(Longman,%201995)(T)(267S).pdf
The Finite Volume Method in CFD: http://www.gidropraktikum.narod.ru/Moukalled-et-al-FVM-OpenFOAM-Matlab.pdf
Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems: http://www.mmc.geofisica.unam.mx/luiggi/MMC/Leveque.pdf
Mathematical models of flow in porous media: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/9783642235580-c2.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-1356737-p174192770
Conservation equations for Multi-phase Multi-component flow through porous media: http://www1.uis.no/Fag/Learningspace_kurs/PetBachelor/webpage/tech%5CReservoir%5Cceng571%5CCHAP6.pdf
Modeling of transport phenomena in porous media using network models: http://paginas.fe.up.pt/ceft/pdfs/Chapter5_ProgressPorousMedia.pdf
Diffusion equation for fluid flow in porous rocks: http://worldsciencepublisher.org/journals/index.php/JOS/article/download/1615/1189
Multi-phase flow in porous media: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:747973/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Numerical computation of multi-phase flows in porous media: http://conan.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/people/peter/pdf/Bastian_habilitationthesis.pdf
Fluid dynamics: www.thphys.nuim.ie/Notes/MP353/nash_notes_on_fluids.pdf
An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Dynamics: www.math.nyu.edu/faculty/childres/fluidsbook.pdf
Computational Fluid Dynamics – kosalmath: https://kosalmath.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/computational-fluid-dynamics.pdf
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics: www.abo.fi/~rzevenho/iCFDbookDate.pdf
Introductory Finite Difference Methods for PDEs : www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fumie/tmp/introductory-finite-difference-methods-for-pdes.pdf
Finite-Difference Approximations to the Heat Equation: www.nada.kth.se/~jjalap/numme/FDheat.pdf
Partial Differential Equations – MathWorks: https://www.mathworks.in/moler/pdes.pdf
Introductory Finite Difference Methods for PDEs – LEKA: www.leka.lt/sites/default/files/…/introductory-finite-difference-methods-for-pdes.pdf
Numerical Methods for the Solution of Partial Differential Equations: www.aei.mpg.de/~rezzolla/lnotes/Evolution_Pdes/evolution_pdes_lnotes.pdf
Study Guide: Intro to Computing with Finite Difference Methods: hplgit.github.io/INF5620/doc/pub/lecture_decay-beamer.pdf
Solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs): personales.unican.es/gutierjm/cursos/cornell/9_PDEs.pdf
Finite Difference Methods for the Hyperbolic Wave PDE: w3.pppl.gov/m3d/1dwave/2006-04-12_18.085_Wave.pdf
Petroleum Engineering – Reservoir Petrophysics: www.pe.tamu.edu/blasingame/data/z_zCourse…/P311_1992C_Wu_Notes.pdf
Petrophysics: www.geo.auth.gr/yliko/useful/books/books_geology/P/Petrophysics.pdf
Fundamentals of Numerical Reservoir Simulation: http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/11/12/fundamentals-of-numerical-reservoir-simulation/
What goes into Reservoir Simulation? http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/dmour/Class%20Notes/Clas%20Notes%20PEG%20466%20What%20Goes%20Into%20Reservoir%20Simulation.pdf
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FORTRAN90 Source Codes:
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/f_src/f_src.htm
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/f_src/
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/
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Useful Youtube Links:
Reservoir Engineering Overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLqWeQ92INA
Applied Petroleum Reservoir Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9PLxDOu5WI
Petroleum, generation and migration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYjhJHNXtg
Migration from source to reservoir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICqMZCdcuZE
Describe the concepts of porosity and permeability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTKUTIUAkEc
Reservoirs, trapping mechanisms, porosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYtVbmjKLrs
Hydraulic head gradient and flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eunHzLVltk
Intro to Darcy’s Law and Rate Equation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvry7VGXID0
Multiphase Flow – Definitions, interfacial tension, capillary behavior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mMsa_kMMQ0
Multiphase Flow – Darcy’s law, relative permeability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufmoO7cGkUk
Multiphase Flow – Capillary pressure-saturation curves, hysteresis, NAPL distributions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WxlmrrXt8
Multiphase Flow – Permeability, perm-p_c relations, Buckley-Leverett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL0J2pUNong
Estimating Oil, Gas and Water Properties. PVT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlrqHPKl8zU
Material Balance: General Concept
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpO7oyd7weU
Numerical methods of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbMVogVj5nJRILpJJO7KrZa8Ttj4_ZAgl
PDE’s and Numerical Methods for PDE’s
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1E6490DB6187479E
Explicit and Implicit Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gje7QDlmGyU
Crank – Nicholson Scheme For Two Spatial Dimensions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCwFBeUk1_E
Parabolic PDE: Time-Splitting ADI Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu4EK–XqaQ
Stability Analysis of Classical Iterative Solvers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DQOyXVa5YE
Iterative Solvers: Multigrid Method (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhCNtRo5mps
Parabolic PDE: Explicit (Forward Euler) Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUqqeU73uow
Parabolic PDE: Implicit (Backward Euler) and Crank-Nicolson Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uMrxbguJ7I
Finite Difference Approximations to Hyperbolic PDEs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySFnHjfMKd8
Hyperbolic PDE: Explicit and Implicit Methods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcW_UHmaCKA
Advanced iterative methods,Strongly Implicit Procedure,Conjugate gradient method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5T10O89Ffg
Finite Volume Method: Basic Philosophy and Comparison with FDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC7gsWiTqfw
Finite Volume Method: Formulation in 1D and 2D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccKE0hdu3_I
Numerical Simulation of Fractured Reservoirs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mk3rFm1woc
Discrete Reduced Models for Flow in Porous Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq76W2xS8WM
Reservoirs Fracturing techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3EvHyS0B2M
An overview of Pressure Transient Analysis PTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omayR1yqEYY
Pressure Transient Analysis, Reservoir Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbOGcSAmck
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