It is with great satisfaction and personal delight that I can write the foreword for this book Fundamentals of Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling by Thomas Hantschel and Armin Ingo Kauerauf. It is a privilege for us geosci- tists that two outstanding physicists, with scienti? c backgrounds in numerical methods of continuum-mechanics and in statistical physics respectively could be won to deeply dive into the numerical simulation of complex geoprocesses. ThekeeninterestinthegeosciencesofThomasHantschelandArminI. Kau- auf and their patience with more descriptive oriented geologists, geochemists, sedimentologists and structural geologists made it possible to write this book, a profound and quantitative treatment of the mathematical and physical - pects of very complex geoprocesses. In addition to their investigative int- est during their patient dialogue with afore mentioned geological specialists Thomas Hantschel and Armin I. Kauerauf gained a great wealth of practical experience by cooperating closely with the international upstream petroleum industry during their years with the service company IES, Integrated Exp- ration Systems. Their book will be a milestone in the advancement of modern geosciences. Thescienti? candthepracticalvalueofmoderngeosciencesreststoalarge degree upon the recognition of the complex interrelationship of individual processes, such as compaction, heat-, ? uid- and mass-? ow, reaction kinetics etc. and upon the sequential quanti? cation of the entire process chain. The intelligent usage of modern high speed computers made all this possible.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface. - 1 Introduction to Quantitative Basin Modeling. - 2 Pore Pressure, Compaction and Tectonics. - 3 Heat Flow Analysis. - 4 Chemical Kinetics. - 5 PVT Analysis. - 6 Migration and Accumulation. - 7 Risk Analysis. - 8 Mathematical Methods. - Appendices: A Unit Conversions and Constants. - B Thermal Properties. - C Compaction and Flow Parameter. - D Methane Density. - E Component Properties. - F Analytic Groundwater Flow Solution from Tóth. - G One Dimensional Consolidation Solution from Gibson. - H Analytic Solutions to Selected Heat Flow Problems. - I Composition and Components for Fig. 5. 13. - J Flowpath Bending. - Index.
