Dr. Felipe Pereira

Dr. Felipe Pereira is an SER Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from The University at Stony Brook. His expertise includes application of mathematics to CO₂ Sequestration and enhanced oil recovery. He also works on the development of models and numerical simulators for multi-phase flows in multi-scale heterogeneous petroleum reservoirs and aquifers.

Education

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, The University at Stony Brook, 1992
M.Sc., Mathematics, New York University, Courant Institute 1988
M.Sc., Physics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1985
B.S., Physics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1983

Current Research Interests

• Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flows in Multiscale Porous Media: CO₂ sequestration, oil reservoirs, contaminant transport
• Uncertainty Quantification
• Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
• High Performance, Parallel, Scientific Computing

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• M. Mendes, M. Murad and F. Pereira, (2012), A New Computational Strategy for Solving Two-Phase Flow in Strongly Heterogeneous Poroelastic Media of Evolving Scales. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 36(15):1683-1716.
• F. Furtado, V. Ginting, F. Pereira, M. Presho, (2011), Operator Splitting Multiscale Finite Volume Element Method for Two-Phase Flow with Capillary Pressure, Transport in Porous Media, 90, no. 3, pp. 927-947.
• V. Ginting, F. Pereira, M. Presho, S. Wo, (2011), Application of the Two-stage Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method for Characterization of Fractured Reservoirs using a Surrogate Flow Model, Computational Geosciences, 15, no. 4, pp. 691-707.
• J. Aquino, A.S. Francisco, F. Pereira, H.P. Amaral Souto (2011), A hybrid method for the simulation of radionuclide contaminant plumes in heterogeneous unsaturated formations, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Volume 53, Issue 8, pp. 1159–1166.
• F. Pereira and A. Rahunanthan, (2011), A Semi-discrete Central Scheme for the Approximation of Two-phase Flows in Three Space Dimensions, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Volume 81, Issue 10, pp. 1935-2370.
• M. R. Borges, F. Pereira, H. P. Amaral Souto, (2010), Efficient Generation of Multi-scale Random Fields: a Hierarchical Approach. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 26, 2, 176-189.
• C. Douglas, F. Furtado, V. Ginting, M. Mendes, F. Pereira, M. Piri, (2010), On the development of a high-performance tool for the simulation of CO₂ injection into deep saline aquifers, Rocky Mountain Geology, Vol. 45, N. 2, pp. 151-161.
• J. Aquino, T. J. Pereira, A. S. Francisco, F. Pereira, H. P. Amaral Souto, (2010), A Lagrangian Strategy for the Numerical Simulation of Radionuclide Transport Problems, Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 52, 3, pp. 282-291.
• M. R. Borges, M. Murad, F. Pereira and F. Furtado, (2009), A New Multiscale Scheme for Computing Statistical Moments in Single Phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Water Resources Research, Vol. 32, pp. 361-382.
• E. Abreu, F. Pereira, S. Ribeiro, Central Schemes for Porous Media Flow, (2009), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 28, N. 1, pp. 87-110.
• E. Abreu, Jim Douglas, Jr., F. Furtado and F. Pereira, (2009), Operator Splitting for Three-phase Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media, Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 72-84.
• M. R. Borges, F. Furtado, F. Pereira and H. P. Amaral Souto, (2008), Scaling Analysis for the Tracer Flow Problem in Self-Similar Permeability Fields, SIAM Multiscale Model. Simul., Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 1130-1147.
• E. Abreu, Jim Douglas Jr., F. Furtado and F. Pereira, (2008), Operator Splitting Based on Physics for Flow in Porous Media, International Journal of Computational Science, v. 2, 3, pp. 315-335.
• J. Aquino, A. S. Francisco, F. Pereira, H. P. Amaral Souto, (2008), An Overview of Eulerian-Lagrangian Schemes Applied to Radionuclide Transport in Unsaturated Porous Media, Progress in Nuclear Energy, v. 50, 7, pp. 774-787.

 Current Research Projects

• On the Development of the UW-team Simulator for the Injection of CO₂ in Deep Saline Aquifers
• Maximization of permanent trapping of CO₂ and co-contaminants in the highest-porosity formations of the Rock Springs Uplift (RSU): Experimentation and multi-scale modeling
• Simulation of CO₂ injection in deep saline aquifers with mathematical verification and physical validation
• A Bayesian Framework for Enabling Predictive Simulation and Uncertainty Quantification in History Matching Geological Models for CO₂ Injection
• Pore-to-Core-to-Reservoir Modeling of Geologic Storage of Supercritical CO₂ in Deep Fractured Saline Aquifers

Media Coverage

• Nature, Vol. 451, February 28, 2008 (pdf)
• Internationally Known Mathematician Joins UW School of Energy Resources Faculty - November 27, 2007 (pdf)

Full Vita

Curriculum Vitae March 2013 (pdf)