Abstract
This paper presents and discusses the results obtained by the participants to the benchmark described in de Hoop et al, Comput. Geosci. (2024). The benchmark uses a model for CO2 geological storage and focuses on the coupling between two-phase flow and geochemistry. Several test cases of various levels of difficulty are proposed, both in one and two spatial dimensions. Six teams participated in the benchmark, each with their own simulation code, though not all teams attempted all the cases. The codes used by the participants are described, and the results obtained on the various test cases are compared, as well as the performance of the codes. It is shown that the results obtained are widely consistent, giving a good level of confidence in the outcome of the benchmark. The general complexity of two-phase flow coupled with chemical reactions altering porous media means that some differences between the codes remain. Besides, from the convergence study, it is clear that the two-dimensional problem has a relatively high sensitivity to a spatial resolution which adds to the complexity.
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The results obtained by the participants in this benchmark study can be found on the website: https://github.com/eahusbor/Reactive-Multiphase-Benchmark. Furthermore, the DARTS model scripts needed to reproduce the results for the test cases using the basic chemical model can be found at https://gitlab.com/open-darts/darts-models.
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The work of E. Ahusborde, B. Amaziane and M. El Ossmani has been partly supported by the Carnot ISIFoR Institute, and “la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine”, France. These supports are gratefully acknowledged. A. Socié and D. Su were supported by the Government of Canada through a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Strategic Partnership Grant for Networks (NETGP 479708-15). F. Hamon was supported by TotalEnergies through the FC-Maelstrom project.
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1.1 Convergence analysis for Test 2.1
In this section, we briefly investigate the sensitivity of the reported results with respect to the mesh discretization for the 2D Test case 2.1 (section 3.1.1 contains a similar study for the 1D Test 1.1). The computations were carried out with the code DARTS, but the authors believe that the same conclusions would have been reached with the other codes.
Figure 16 represents the gas saturation computed by DARTS for several meshes composed of \(60 \times 24\), \(120 \times 48\), \(240 \times 96\) and \(480 \times 192\) elements.
One can see that the results obtained on the coarsest grid (Fig. 16-a) lack several features that can be seen at finer resolutions. Differences can still be seen on all four meshes; however, the main qualitative features have mainly stabilized from mesh (b)-onwards. Mesh (b) (with \(120\times 48\) elements) was chosen as an acceptable compromise between sufficient accuracy and a reasonable computation time for the numerical experiments.
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Ahusborde, E., Amaziane, B., de Hoop, S. et al. A benchmark study on reactive two-phase flow in porous media: Part II - results and discussion. Comput Geosci (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-024-10269-y
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