SPE11C#

SPE11C is the three-dimensional field-scale benchmark case. The configurations compare Cartesian and corner-point grids, convective dissolution, and a model with more than 100 million cells.

Configurations#

r1_Cart_50m-50m-10m: Cartesian grid with nominal cell dimensions of 50 m, 50 m, and 10 m. The lateral boundaries use 1 m cells.
r2_cp_50m-50m-8mish: Corner-point grid with nominal lateral dimensions of 50 m and an approximate vertical cell size of 8 m. The lateral boundaries use 1 m cells.
r3_cp_50m-50m-8mish_convective: The r2 grid with the convective-dissolution model enabled for facies 2 and 5.
r4_cp_8m-8mish-8mish: Fine corner-point grid with an x cell size of 8 m and approximate y and z cell sizes of 8 m. The lateral boundaries use 1 m cells.

Run the cases#

Run these commands from the benchmark/spe11c directory:

pyopmspe11 -i r1_Cart_50m-50m-10m.toml -o r1_Cart_50m-50m-10m -m all -g all -r 168,100,120 -t 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,75,100,150,200,250,300,350,400,450,500,600,700,800,900,1000 -w 0.1
pyopmspe11 -i r2_cp_50m-50m-8mish.toml -o r2_cp_50m-50m-8mish -m all -g all -r 168,100,120 -t 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,75,100,150,200,250,300,350,400,450,500,600,700,800,900,1000 -w 0.1
pyopmspe11 -i r3_cp_50m-50m-8mish_convective.toml -o r3_cp_50m-50m-8mish_convective -m all -g all -r 168,100,120 -t 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,75,100,150,200,250,300,350,400,450,500,600,700,800,900,1000 -w 0.1
pyopmspe11 -i r4_cp_8m-8mish-8mish.toml -o r4_cp_8m-8mish-8mish -m all -g all -r 168,100,120 -t 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,75,100,150,200,250,300,350,400,450,500,600,700,800,900,1000 -w 0.1

Large-scale SPE11C case#

The r4 case contains more than 100 million cells. Running it required improvements to OPM Flow, including METIS support, and scalable pyopmspe11 preprocessing and postprocessing. The published run used 1024 processes on the NORCE HPC cluster.

$CO2 molar fraction in the 100-million-cell SPE11C model$

The animation shows liquid-phase CO2 molar fraction in ParaView.

Results#

Performance data#

Sparse data#

Spatial maps#

SPE11C liquid-phase CO2 mass-fraction maps

Well 1 location correction#

In the submitted SPE11C results, Well 1 was located approximately 100 m above the benchmark depth of 300 m.

The corrected comparison below uses an additional case without dispersion on the reporting grid. This case, referred to as r5, was generated by setting dispersion to zero in the r1 configuration. It is shown instead of the large r4 model.

SPE11C sparse data with the corrected Well 1 location

Continue#

See Configuration reference for configuration-variable definitions.
Follow the Tutorial for a guided introductory workflow.
Use Visualizing benchmark results with plopm to reproduce the simulation-grid maps.
See Convergence for the SPE11B grid-refinement study.

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