PetraSim User Manual
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PetraSim User Manual

Table of Contents

Disclaimer
Acknowledgements
1. Getting Started
Welcome
PetraSim at a Glance
Main Window
2D Grid Editor
3D Results View
Time History Results
Example Problems
PetraSim Tour (Five Spot)
Load the eos1_five_spot sample model
Enable flux output
Run the simulation
View 3D simulation results
View cell time history data
Installation
30 Day Trial
Purchase of PetraSim
Registration
Additional TOUGH Documentation
Computer Hardware Requirements
2. Flow in Porous Media
Darcy's Law for Single Phase Flow
Multi-Phase Flow
Relative Permeability
Capillary Pressure
3. TOUGH Concepts
Components and Phases
Mass and Energy Balance
Spatial Discretization
Temporal Discretization
4. Equations of State
Selecting an EOS
Global Properties
Details for Each EOS
5. PetraSim Basics
Work Flow in a Typical Analysis
PetraSim Interface
3D View
Grid Editor (2D View)
Tree View
Enabled, Disabled, and Fixed State Cells
Units
Contour Data
6. Working with Files
PetraSim Model File
TOUGH Input File
Creating and Saving a New PetraSim Model
Open a Saved PetraSim Model
7. The Solution Grid
Problem Boundary
Internal Boundary
Top and Bottom Surfaces
Creating Solution Grids
Regular Grid
Meshmaker Grid
Editing a Cell
Extra Cells
8. Materials
Material Data
Relative Permeability
Capillary Pressure
Miscellaneous Material Data
Assigning Different Materials by Cell
9. Initial Conditions
Default Initial Conditions
Region Initial Conditions
Cell Initial Conditions
Loading Previous Results as Initial Conditions
Recommended Examples
10. Boundary Conditions
Fixed Boundary Conditions
Sources and Sinks
Using Wells in PetraSim
Time-Dependent Essential (Dirichlet) Boundary Conditions
Background
Setting the Time-Dependent Boundary Conditions
Example
11. Solution and Output Controls
Solution Controls
Times Tab
Solver Tab
Weighting Tab
Convergence Tab
Options Tab
Output Controls
12. Running Simulation
Running a Simulation
Setting TOUGH Analysis Priority
Monitoring Progress of TOUGH Analysis
Writing the TOUGH Input File
13. Plotting Results
3D Plots of Results
Time History Plots of Results
Source/Sink and Cell History Plots
14. Flow in Fractured Media
The MINC Approach
Using MINC in PetraSim
15. Miscellaneous
Map Between TOUGH2 Names and PetraSim Interface
TITLE
MESHM
ROCKS
MULTI
START Record
CHEMP (T2VOC only)
PARAM
INDOM
INCON
SOLVR
FOFT
GOFT
NOVER
DIFFU
SELEC
RPCAP
TIMES
ELEME
CONNE
GENER
16. Troubleshooting
Convergence Problems
Licensing/Registration Problems
Contacting Technical Support
References
Index
List of Figures
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