Using the Earth Science Module in the classroom
pore-scale flow: The geometry was produced by scanning electron microscope images
The Earth Science Module sets up a number of fundamental physics explicitly for the modeling of subsurface flow and poroelasticity in applications such as oil exploitation and reservoir engineering. Great for teaching students, it includes a bank of worked example models that cover a wide range of application areas as well as:
- Ease of use—Built-in modeling interfaces for modeling interfaces for saturated and unsaturated media flow, chemical transport, and heat transfer
- Different flow regimes—You can couple different flow descriptions depending on their respective environments, such as free flow with porous media flow through the combination of the Brinkman and Navier-Stokes equations
- Model Library—Included are examples where multiple flow laws are coupled together, fluid flow and electromagnetics interact, and poroelastic behavior results from fluid flow and solid deformation
- Uses outside of earth science—The module is also applicable to single or multiphase porous media flow and poroelasticity such as applications concerned with the analysis of biological tissue, moisture absorption, wicking, and multiphase reactions in porous media.