OPEN POROUS MEDIA (OPM)

The Open Porous Media (OPM) initiative encourages open innovation and reproducible research for modeling and simulation of porous media processes.

OPM coordinates collaborative software development, maintains and distributes open-source software and open data sets, and seeks to ensure that these are available under a free license in a long-term perspective.

Current development is focused on CO2 sequestration and improved and enhanced oil recovery, but contributions aimed at different scientific or industrial fields in which flow in porous media play an important role are always welcome.

OPM software

Flow is a reservoir simulator for three-phase black-oil problems using a fully-implicit formulation. There are also specialized variants for solvent and polymer problems. Flow can read and write standard industry formats. More information.

The Upscaling module contains programs that can do flow-based permeability upscaling as well as upscaling of relative permeability and capillary curves, using a steady-state approach. More information.

ResInsight is an easy-to use and fast visualization tool for reservoir simulation. More information.

The components can be used as a toolbox to create new or customise existing solvers and simulators. More information.