3.2.7 Coores™

Coores™ (CO2 Reservoir Environmental Simulator) is a research code designed by IFPEN to study CO2 storage processes from the well to the basin scale. With a structured or unstructured grid, Coores™ simulates multi-component three-phase and 3-D fluid flow in heterogeneous porous media. Molar conservation equations are solved with a fully coupled system linearised by a Newton approach. To take into account mineralogy changes, the transport model is coupled with a geochemistry reactor, Arxim. Permeability and capillarity pressure changes due to porosity variations are taken into account with different porosity-permeability and porosity-capillarity pressure laws such as Kozeny-Carman, Labrid or Fair-Hatch laws.