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Master/bachelor theses using MRST

Below is an incomplete compilation of master's and bachelor's theses that have utilized MRST. It is important to note that this list solely consists of theses brought to our attention by the students, supervisors, or identified through Google Scholar.

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2025
166. Mukhammad Sholikhuddin Evaluation and comparison of reservoir simulator performance in waterflooding scenarios using MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST) and Computer Modelling Group (CMG) Pertamina University
165. Sahar Banun Comparative study of WAG-CO₂ injection performance in a dead oil reservoir using the black oil model with MRST and CMG simulators Pertamina University
       
2024
164. Shaharyar Sohail Numerical modeling of low salinity waterflooding using MRST Montanuniversität Loeben
163. Kristian Holme Grid orientation effects and consistent discretizations for simulation of geologic carbon storage: A study of the SPE11 benchmark NTNU
162. Mahesh Timsina Daily production optimization of gas-lifted oil field with MPC framework University of South-Eastern Norway
       
2023
161. Teresa Biliato Geomechanical modeling of CO2 injection in a faulted reservoir Padua University
160. Tayfun Jamalbayli Comparison of reservoir simulation techniques for gas reservoirs: semi-analytical tank flow model approach versus finite volume solutions Middle East Technical University
159. Mohammadsajjad Zeynolabedini MRST vertical equilibrium model analysis for CO2 storage NTNU
158. Aniket Modi Simulation and history-matching of polymer-assisted water alternating CO2 injection using MRST TU Delft
157. Ingvild S. Devold Graph-based methods for data-driven reservoir modeling NTNU, Trondheim
156. Sondre Husøy Constrained generation of Voronoi meshes using inscribed sphere distance NTNU, Trondheim
154. Vetle Nevland An extended fully-implicit hybrid model for geological CO2 storage University of Oslo
154. Mahlon Kida Marvin Self optimizing control for smart well in waterflooding of oil reservoir University of Maiduguri
       
2022
153. Guming Zhou Heterogeneity consideration in centrifuge experiments and simulations for capillary pressure curve measurements Memorial University of Newfoundland
152. Nikola Zoric Numerical simulation of microbial interactions in underground hydrogen storage with MRST Montanuniversität Leoben
151. Reihaneh Shahali Machine learning methods for assessing value-of-information University of Stavanger
150. Andreas Bjelland Berg Combining Gmsh and MRST - Developing software for more efficient grid creation in two dimensions NTNU
149. Md Fazlul Haque Path design and optimization with obstacle avoidance via reinforcement learning University of Stavanger
148. Duy Duc Khuat Improved optimization methods for adjoint-based training of reduced-order models NTNU
147. Reihaneh Shahali Machine learning methods for assessing value-of-information University of Stavanger
146. Onkar Prakash Bhujange Modeling and analysis of secondary oil recovery through advanced wells University of South-Eastern Norway
       
2021
145. Hassan Abdelrahman Amer Enhanced oil recovery in tight rocks using the “slot-drill” completion Louisiana State University
144. Jincheng Li Integration of POD-DEIM to flow-based upscaling method in reservoir simulation model order reduction Texas A&M
143. Mursal Zeynalli Numerical modeling and simulation of viscoelastic polymer flow in porous media Khalifa University
142. Ahmadreza Shojaee Numerical modeling of scale potential during water injection - an MRST study Petroleum University of Technology
141. Ishtiaqul Islam Studying injectivity of CO2 into subsurface formations for geologic sequestration using MRST: Cyclic injection vs. simultaneous injection Penn State University
140. Ziming Xu Analyzing the impacts of discretization and meshing in numerical simulation of unconventional reservoirs University of Alberta
139. Narges Dashtbeshbadounak. Upscaling multiphase flows in heterogeneous porous media and its application to EOR Sorbonne Université
138. Stacia Elvaretta Value of information analysis in CO2 sequestration projects University of Stavanger
137. Onur Alp Kaya Modeling and simulation of the fluid flow in artificially fractured and gel treated core plugs Middle East Technical University
136. Vegard Vaaland Öztan Image-derived forces in an elastic image registration model University of Bergen
       
2020
135. Xuewei Ning Numerical simulation of channel fracturing technology in developing shale gas reservoirs University of Louisiana at Lafayette
134. Christopher D. Moore Streamline-based modeling of foam population in porous media University of Louisiana at Lafayette
133. Zihao Chen Development of a toolbox for simulation of integrated reservoir-production system Texas A&M
132. Andresa Dornelas de Castro Implementação do modelo de ordem reduzida TPWL para simulação de reservatórios de petróleo na plataforma MRST Universidade Federal De Pernambuco
131. Thibault Edward Gaudet Upscaling models of CO2 migration through low-permeable layers in porous media NTNU
130. Mirna Alaa Mahmoud Taha Maklad Modeling the effectiveness of polymer flooding for enhancing oil recovery compared to water flooding and the effect of reservoir characteristics on their sweep efficiency Texas A&M
129. Andrea Manzoni Three-dimensional inverse modelling of two-phase flows at the core scale Politecnico di Milano
128. Victoria Nymo Mathematical and numerical methods for physical regulations of medical images University of Bergen
       
2019
127. Marco Bezzegato Multifidelity surrogate modeling in reservoir simulation : a functional cokriging approach to uncertainty quantification and prediction Politecnico di Milano
126. Luiz Eduardo Hupalo Modelos aproximados para predição de variáveis de poços de petróleo Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
125. Stian Falkfjell Rosvoldaune Tracer-based two-phase upscaling NTNU
124. Scott W. C.  Bunting Value of information analysis in the context of leakage detection in CO2 storage NTNU
123. Evangelia Sotiropoulou Reservoir characterization of the United Downs deep geothermal project using discrete fracture networks (DFN) Heriot Watt University
122. Stephanie Herrington Reservoir characterization of the UDDGP reservoir using rapid reservoir modelling tool (RRM) Heriot Watt University
121. Gillian Margaret Douglas Quantification of uncertainty in a naturally fractured reservoir using flow diagnostics Heriot Watt University
120. Julia Katie Alexandra Neill Waterflood optimisation in a mature field using flow diagnostics Heriot Watt University
119. Rose Elisabeth Harriet Leadbitter Using process modelling and flow diagnostics to assess geomorphological parameter influence on the static and dynamic response of fluvial reservoirs Heriot Watt University
118. Boum Hee Lee Algorithm-aided decision-making in reservoir management University of Texas at Austin
117. Kaiyi Zhang CO2 minimum miscibility pressure and recovery mechanisms in heterogeneous low permeability reservoirs Virginia Tech
116. Emanuel Pereira Barroso Neto Smart reservoir: auma proposta para otimização de tempo de explotação em reservatórios de petróleo Universidade de Brasília
115. Mona-Lena Dordi Norheim Investigating iterative solvers of Poisson-type equations discretized by the two-point flux-approximation scheme NTNU
114. Andrea Tronstad Lønn Modeling and simulation of EOR due to biofilm formation and gas production University of Bergen
113. Sindre Grøstad Automatic differentiation in Julia with application to numerical solution of PDEs NTNU
112. Jie Huang Machine learning based error modeling for surrogate model in oil reservoir problem TU Delft
111. Fanle Meng Flow performance analysis of injection water in fractures and decision-making of water shutoff treatments for carbonate reservoirs China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
110. Yan Qiao Study on the flow-field of heavily water-flooded reservoirs: Characterization and reconstruction China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
       
2018
109. Yibing Hu High temporal and spatial resolution - combined positron emission tomography and micro-computed tomography imaging in core analysis Montanuniversität Loeben
108. Andreas Rath Mapping structured grid properties on triangulated meshes Montanuniversität Loeben
107. Gallileu Genesis Pereira de Sousa Estudo numérico dos efeitos das fraturas em reservatórios de petróleo Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
106. Oluwadairo Kayode Multilateral well modeling from compartmentalized reservoirs Memorial University of Newfoundland
105. Jiayi Cao Impact of biofilm formation in microbial enhanced oil recovery performance University of Calgary
104. Trisha Margaret Paula Garcia Effectiveness and efficiency of polymers in enhanced oil recovery of high water cut reservoirs of varying salinities and temperatures via reservoir simulations Texas A&M
103. Keshav Kala Parameterization of element balance formulation in reactive compositional flow and transport TU Delft
102. Asgeir Nyvoll Correlating recovery factors with measures of reservoir heterogeneity NTNU
101. Trude Sætnan Sæther Simulation study of in-situ polymer rheology in a radial flow experiment University of Bergen
100. Jenny Tjan Comparison of two-level preconditioners using deflation techniques applied to flow problems TU Delft
99. Edoardo Guarnerio Velocity enhancement models for polymer flooding in reservoir simulation TU Delft
98. Marija Ninic Advection upscaling for heat transport in fractured geothermal reservoir University of Bergen
97. Pia-Kristina Heigrestad Nonlinear two-point flux approximation schemes for reservoir simulation NTNU
96. Roman Bohne Machine-learning algorithms for the computation of upscaled permeabilities NTNU
95. Fabio Olivari Impact of relative permeability hysteresis on hydrocarbon migration Politecnico Milano
94. Raymond Toft A general nonlinear reservoir simulator with the full approximation scheme NTNU
93. Håkon Jarvis Westergård Fast marching and fast sweeping in optimal path planning KTH/NTNU
92. Jhabriel Varela Implementation of an MPFA/MPSA-FV solver for the unsaturated flow in in deformable porous media University of Bergen
91. Ferenc Székely Mathematical modeling and numerical study of viscous fingering NTNU
90. Jayanth K. Natarajan Quantifying the ranges of feasible control strategies for reservoir lifecycle optimization TU Delft
89. Niloofar Salmani Implementation of the double-scale method for simulation of near wellbore flow in gas-condensate reservoir in open-source software MRST (in Persian) Persian Gulf University
88. Shaoqing Zhang Diagnostics, prediction and control strategies of channeling: a case study of the Xianhe fault block reservoir China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
       
2017
87. Mohammad Hafiz Hamdan Reservoir simulation of black oil reservoir using MATLAB reservoir simulation toolbox (MRST) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
86. Pattanapong Plukmonton Application of Ensemble-based Optimization on UNISIM-I Texas A & M
85. Ahmed G. Almetwally A framework for rapid numerical well test analysis using an open source simulator University of Cairo
84. Gökhan Mamak Random walk particle modelling of polymer injection using Matlab Reservoir Simulation Toolbox Middle East Technical University
83. Prashanth Neelakantan Comparison of multi-model history matching methods TU Delft
82. Martin S. Dugstad Upscaling on fracture flow models University of Bergen
81. Anders Opskar Voldsund A mathematical model for calculating river hydrographs using high resolution digital elevation models NTNU
80. Lars Christian Kjær Simulation study of polymer injectivity and rheology in radial models University of Bergen
79. Linda Weigman Numerical aspects of transport modelling in Enhanced Oil Recovery TU Delft
78. Tonje Nielsen Estimation of in-situ polymer rheology by simulation of radial flow experiment University of Bergen
77. Jørgen Gausdal Jacobsen Influence of residual oil on polymer injectivity University of Bergen
76. Tayanne S. Ligeiro / 
Caio L. S.
Massa		 Ajuste do histórico da produção usando múltiplos modelos aplicando Ensemble Kalman filter: Estudo de casos desenvolvidos no MRST Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
75. Espen Høegh Sørum CO2 sequestration - a near-well study NTNU
74. Jesse van der Hoeven An investigation into the effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity of fracture permeability on flow and thermal transport Utrecht University
73. Sergey Klevtsov Linear solution techniques for reservoir simulation with fully coupled geomechanics Stanford University
72. Kushagra Saxena Low salinity water alternate gas injection process for Alaskan viscous oil EOR University of Alaska Fairbanks
71. Liang Guo Production-data based identification of channeling for horizontal wells China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
70. Yanli Pei Characterization of complex hydraulic fracture networks based on tracer flowback profiles China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
       
2016
69. Gonçalo José de Carvalho Rodrigues Ajuste do histórico de produção através do filtro Ensemble Kalman Técnico Lisboa
68. Dmitrii Boitcov Adaptive deflated multiscale methods TU Delft
67. Marco Emilio Rodrigues Miranda Simulação do fenômeno do cone de gás em reservatório de petróleo utilizando o MRST e controle por planicidade diferencial Universidade de Brasilia
66. Jesus Jaime Leal Chapa Proper orthogonal decomposition for presure preconditioning for the GMRES algorithm Texas A&M
65. Ivar Stefansson A comparison of two numerical models for flow in fractured porous media and the impact of fracture intersection cell removal University of Bergen
64. Fredrik Johannesen Accelerated smoothing and construction of prolongation operators for the multiscale restricted-smoothed basis method on distributed memory systems NTNU
63. Anna Danilova Upscaling polymer flooding using MRST NTNU
62. Masoud Ahmadinia Gradient based and gradient free production optimization of reservoir well placement and controls Politecnico di Torino
61. Andreas Almlien Røssland PRST - Python Reservoir Simulation Toolbox NTNU
60. Fu Kai Yap Representative models for history matching and robust optimization TU Delft
59. Dayo Akindipe Evaluation of microbial enhanced oil recovery using the MRST simulator NTNU
58. Arnaud Van Harmelen One-dimensional two-phase analytical models applied to closed-loop reservoir management TU Delft
57. Runar Lie Berge Unstructured PEBI grids adapting to geological features in subsurface reservoirs NTNU
56. Ingeborg Gåseby Gjerde Simulations of underground gas storage of natural gas NTNU
55. Øystein Strengehagen Klemetsdal The virtual element method as a common framework for finite element and finite difference methods - Numerical and theoretical analysis NTNU
54. Magnus Jorstad Multigrid preconditioning of the linear elasticity equation NTNU
53. Stine Vennemo Multiscale simulation of thermal flow in porous media NTNU
52. Nanna Bugge Siggaard Minimisation of water cut in oil production by regulating Inflow Control Devices to minimise Lorenz coefficients using both full reservoir simulations and a flow diagnostic approach Aarhus University
51. Hongxia Liu Study on the distribution pattern and productivity of hydraulic fractures for horizontal well in tight reservoirs China University of Petroleum (Beijing)
       
2015
50. Shahed Rahim Reservoir geological uncertainty reduction and its applications in reservoir development optimization University of Alberta
49. Rishi Jumani Numerical modeling of the flow and transport behavior of low-salinity waterflooding in MATLAB reservoir simulation toolbox New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
48. Chiazor Nwachukwu Model selection for CO₂ sequestration using surface deflection and injection data UT Austin
47. Kingsley O. Abrokwah Single-phase flow in layered porous media with applications to reservoir simulation Lamar University
46. Anna Varzina Heat transfer upscaling in geothermal reservoirs University of Bergen
45. Victor Antonio Paludetto Magri Pré-condicionador multiescala algébrico aplicado à simulação de reservatórios de petróleo Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
44. Camille Le Coz A modified POD procedure with patterns in time for parameter estimation TU Delft
43. Swej Shah The multiscale restriction smoothed basis method for fractured porous media TU Delft
42. Einar Johan Moen Baumann FieldOpt: Enhanced software framework for petroleum field optimization - development of software support system for the integration of oil production problems with optimization methodology NTNU
41. Aleksander Amundsen Microbial enhanced oil recovery - modeling and numerical simulations NTNU/DTU
40. Lars Skjærpe Midttun Reservoir management and uncertainty NTNU
39. Jon Anders Krogstad Control-switching strategies for reservoir water-flooding management NTNU
38. Guro Seternes Simulations of CO2 migration with a fully-integrated VE model on the GPU NTNU
37. C. W. Hewson Reduced-order modelling for production optimization TU Delft
36. A. K. Loomba Well trajectory optimization TU Delft
35. R. T. Purba Permeability estimation using a non-parametric bayesian network TU Delft
34. Peter E. Aackermann Stochastic optimization and risk Management in the production optimization of oil reservoirs DTU
33. Cecilia Halmøy Estimation of pressure propagation in reservoirs using the fast-marching method NTNU
       
2014
32. Roberto Navarro Pareja Ajuste ao histórico em reservatórios de petróleo usando o Método do Filtro de Kalman con Ensembles (EnKF) Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
31. Mengdi Gao Reservoir and surface facilities coupled through partially and fully implicit approaches Texas A & M
30. Vegard Ove Endresen Kjelseth Efficient Calculation of Derivatives using Automatic Differentiation University of Oslo
29. Thomas Nystrand Summation by part methods for Poisson's equation with discontinuous variable coefficients Uppsala
28. Thea Knudsen Fully-implicit WENO schemes two-phase flow in reservoir simulation NTNU
27. Joachim Dyrdahl Thermal flow in fractured porous media and operator splitting NTNU
26. Bahado Najafiazar Mathematical Optimization in Reservoir Management NTNU
25. Anette Cathrin Nedreli Transport upscaling in porous media University of Bergen
24. Elisabeth K. Prestegård A GPU accelerated simulator for CO2 storage NTNU
       
2013
23. Marcel Alim Constraint handling in life-cycle optimization using ensemble gradients TU Delft
22. Eirik Røysem Haug Subsea investments and well placements in the oil production industry NTNU
21. Sevaphol Iemcholvilert A research on production optimization of coupled surface and subsurface model Texas A & M
20. Fabio Miguel de Matos Ravanelli History matching of 4D seismic data attributes using the Ensemble Kalman Filter KAUST
19. Matei Tene Ensemble-based history matching for channelized petroleum reservoirs TU Delft
18. Kristian Jørgensen Implementation of a Surfactant Model in MRST With Basis in Schlumberger's Eclipse NTNU
17. Victor Lampe Modeling fluid flow and heat transport in fractured porous media University of Bergen
16. Kristin A. Larssen Steady-state upscaling of polymer flow University of Oslo
       
2012
15. Are Gabriel Høyland Multiscale methods in reservoir simulation University of Bergen
14. Dan Sava Model-reduced gradient based production optimization: computational analysis of POD-based model-order reduction in the context of production optimization TU Delft
13. Roman Heimhuber Efficient history matching for reduced reservoir models with PCE-based bootstrap filters Universität Stuttgart
12. Fethia Ibrahim History matching with reduced parametrization and fast streamline-based sensitivities University of Bergen
11. Ruben Bø Mimetic discretizations on grids with curved surfaces NTNU
10. Anders Hoff A parallel multiscale mixed finite element method for the Matlab Reservoir Simulation Toolbox NTNU
9. Christine M. Ø Haugland Applying hybrid methods to reduce nonphysical cycles in the flux field NTNU
8. Olav Møyner Multiscale finite-volume methods on unstructured grids NTNU
7. Simen Lønsethagen Krylov subspace accelerated algebraic multigrid for mimetic finite differences on GPUs NTNU
6. Lars Jahr Røine Visualization of subsurface grids in Octave University of Oslo
       
2008-2011
5. Pål Næverlid Sævik Reactive transport in porous media University of Bergen, 2011.
4. Gagandeep Singh Mimetic finite difference method on GPU: Application in reservoir simulation and well modeling NTNU, 2010.
3. Karianne H. Christensen Adaptive Voronoi grids in the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox NTNU, 2010.
2. Audun Torp Sparse linear algebra on a GPU (with applications to flow in porous media) NTNU, 2009.
1. Ingeborg Skjelkvåle Ligaarden Well models for mimetic finite difference methods and improved representation of wells in multiscale methods University of Oslo, 2008.

Published January 30, 2014

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