NUMERICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF LOW DENSITY TURBIDITY CURRENTS FOR BASIN SEDIMENTATION / SIMULACAO NUMERICA E COMPUTACIONAL DE CORRENTES DETURBIDEZ DE BAIXA DENSIDADE PARA SEDIMENTACAO DE BACIAS

AUTOR(ES)
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

Turbidity currents occur in both natural and man-made situations. In agreement with some researchers, most of the world¿s oil reserves are stored in hydrocarbon reservoir built by turbidity systems. Because of the importance of these currents, this work proposes a consistent and efficient numerical method for simulations of turbidity currents for basin sedimentations predictions in the stratigraphic modelling process, which will be incorporated to the numerical simulator of sedimentation 3D called Steno. In order to validate the proposed numerical model experiments were conducted at the Hydraulics Research Institute of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. The proposed numerical model is based on Navier-Stokes equations that are solved in the depth-average. Moreover, a three-dimensional graphic application for numerical simulations of turbidity currents called Turb3D was developed. The application user interface provides a common, user-friendly, graphical environment for pre-processing, solution and post-processing. Despite the good computational performance achieved by using this approach, the method presented did not reproduce accurately the evolution of turbidity current and their deposits. However, it is believed that the approach to the numeric simulation of the turbidity current problem given in this work can provide better results, although this research should continue and improvements should be made.

ASSUNTO(S)

gravity currents numerical simulation correntes de turbidez turbidity currents fluid dynamic dinamica dos fluidos fluxos gravitacionais simulacao numerica

ACESSO AO ARTIGO

Documentos Relacionados