Ready-made interfaces make it easy to model single and coupled processes related to subsurface flow. The module is well suited for studies in oil and gas flow in porous media, the modeling of groundwater flow, and the spread of pollution through soil.
A variety of specialized interfaces are available for easy application of the Richards and Navier-Stokes equations, Darcy’s law, and Brinkman’s extension of Darcy’s law. In addition, the module handles the transport and reaction of solutes as well as heat transport in porous media.
The Earth Science Module provides examples to demonstrate multiphysics modeling of geophysical and environmental problems with arbitrary couplings to other application modes in COMSOL Multiphysics®, such as solid deformation and electromagnetics.
Application Examples
- Estuary and riparian analyses—flow, advection and diffusion
- Gas storage, remediation and sequestration
- Magnetohydrodynamic magma flows
- Mechanical and gravity dewatering of porous and fibrous materials
- Petroleum extraction analysis
- Pollutant plume analyses in subsurface, surface and atmospheric flows
- Poroelastic compaction & subsidence, stress and fracture analysis
- Saturated and unsaturated porous media flow
- Shallow water flows and sediment transport
- Single phase, multiphase and foam flow through porous media
- Water table analyses and saline intrusion into groundwater
- Well head analyses