2015 SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences
July 1, 2015
Stanford University Stanford, California USA
MS39 Meshless Modeling in Geoscience

Organizers: Alexander Lukyanov Schlumberger Geoquest, USA and Kees Vuik Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

The goal of the symposium is to bring together all the active researchers working in various aspects of meshless methods in the geoscience and to identify the areas for improvements, and formulate key challenging topics for future research and meetings. Meshless modelling is a promising approach to facilitate direct simulation of a large number of different and complex physical processes within the porous media. Knowledge of the capabilities and limitations of different numerical meshless approaches leads to a better understanding of their impact on various applications and future research on improving and extending modeling capabilities.

9:30-9:45 Meshless Multigrid with Rough Coefficients
Houman Owhadi, California Institute of Technology, USA

9:50-10:05 Partition of Unity Methods: Mass Lumping and Fast Solvers for Higher Order and Enriched Spaces
Marc A. Schweitzer, Universität Bonn, Germany

10:10-10:25 Large Scale Compuation of Fluid-Solid-Fracturing Using SPH with Application to Hydro-Fracturing
John R. Williams, Nadir Akinci, Gizem Akinci, Bruce Jones, Kai Pan, Abel Sanchez, Maitham Aluhbail, Abdulaziz Albaiz, and Zeid Alghareeb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Peter Tilke, Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA

10:30-10:45 Oil and Gas Production Forecasting with Semi-Analytical Reservoir Simulation
Peter Tilke, Wentao Zhou, Boris Samson, Shalini Krishnamurthy, Jeff Spath, and Michael Thambynayagam, Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA; updated Alexander Lukyanov, Schlumberger Geoquest, USA

10:50-11:05 Extending the Method of Fundamental Solutions to Non Homogeneous Elastic Wave Propagation Problems
Svilen S. Valtchev, University of Lisbon, Portugal

11:10-11:25 Meshless Discretization of Generalized Laplace Operator For Anisotropic Heterogeneous Media
Alexander Lukyanov, Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA; Kees Vuik, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Contact information: Kees Vuik