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Knut-Andreas Lie

Knut-Andreas Lie

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
8234
World Ranking
4881
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the advancement of mathematics within the geosciences, multiscale and operator-splitting numerical methods, and open-source software tools.

Overview

Knut-Andreas Lie is affiliated with SINTEF in Norway and has made significant contributions to the engineering field, particularly in reservoir engineering and simulation methods. Their research spans multiple specialized topics including enhanced oil recovery techniques, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, advanced numerical methods in computational mathematics, CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions, advanced mathematical modeling in engineering, and drilling and well engineering.

Their recent publications cover a variety of subjects related to porous media flow, reservoir simulation, and numerical methods. Notable papers include:

  • The 11th Society of Petroleum Engineers Comparative Solution Project: Problem Definition (2024, SPE Journal)
  • The Open Porous Media Flow reservoir simulator (2020, Computers & Mathematics with Applications)
  • An implicit local time-stepping method based on cell reordering for multiphase flow in porous media (2020, Journal of Computational Physics X)
  • Embedded discrete fracture modeling: Flow diagnostics, non-Darcy flow, and well placement optimization (2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering)
  • Dynamic Coarsening and Local Reordered Nonlinear Solvers for Simulating Transport in Porous Media (2020, SPE Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Knut-Andreas Lie include:

  • Olav Møyner
  • Øystein Klemetsdal
  • Stein Krogstad
  • Arthur Moncorgé
  • Halvor Møll Nilsen

Their work is regularly published in a variety of venues, such as:

  • SPE Journal
  • SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference
  • Computational Geosciences
  • ECMOR XVII
  • ADVANCES IN GEO-ENERGY RESEARCH

Knut-Andreas Lie has also contributed to academia through book publication. One of their works is titled Advanced Modeling with the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press.

Their main fields of study encompass engineering broadly, with specific focuses on ocean engineering, mechanical engineering, computational mechanics, computational theory and mathematics, and environmental engineering.

In recognition of their contributions, they were awarded the SIAM Fellow distinction in 2020 for advances in mathematics within the geosciences, multiscale and operator-splitting numerical methods, and open-source software tools.

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST)

    Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Open-source MATLAB implementation of consistent discretisations on complex grids

    Knut–Andreas Lie;Knut–Andreas Lie;Stein Krogstad;Ingeborg Skjelkvåle Ligaarden;Jostein Roald Natvig

  • Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision

    Xue-Cheng Tai;Knut Mørken;Marius Lysaker;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Splitting methods for partial differential equations with rough solutions : analysis and MATLAB programs

    Helge Holden;Kenneth Hvistendahl Karlsen;Knut-Andreas Lie;Nils Henrik Risebro

  • A Hierarchical Multiscale Method for Two-Phase Flow Based upon Mixed Finite Elements and Nonuniform Coarse Grids

    Jorg E. Aarnes;Stein Krogstad;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • An Introduction to the Numerics of Flow in Porous Media using Matlab

    Jørg E. Aarnes;Tore Gimse;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • A comparison of multiscale methods for elliptic problems in porous media flow

    Vegard Kippe;Jørg E. Aarnes;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Mixed multiscale finite elements and streamline methods for reservoir simulation of large geomodels

    Jørg E. Aarnes;Vegard Kippe;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Multiscale mixed/mimetic methods on corner-point grids

    Jørg E. Aarnes;Stein Krogstad;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • On the Artificial Compression Method for Second-Order Nonoscillatory Central Difference Schemes for Systems of Conservation Laws

    Knut-Andreas Lie;Sebastian Noelle

  • MRST-AD - an Open-Source Framework for Rapid Prototyping and Evaluation of Reservoir Simulation Problems

    Stein Krogstad;Knut–Andreas Lie;Olav Møyner;Halvor Møll Nilsen

  • The Application of Flow Diagnostics for Reservoir Management

    Olav Møyner;Stein Krogstad;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Fast computation of multiphase flow in porous media by implicit discontinuous Galerkin schemes with optimal ordering of elements

    Jostein R. Natvig;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Solving the euler equations on graphics processing units

    Trond Runar Hagen;Knut-Andreas Lie;Jostein R. Natvig

  • A Multiscale Mixed Finite-Element Method for Vuggy and Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

    Astrid Fossum Gulbransen;Vera Louise Hauge;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • A multiscale restriction-smoothed basis method for high contrast porous media represented on unstructured grids

    Olav Møyner;Knut-Andreas Lie

  • Fully Implicit Simulation of Polymer Flooding with MRST

    Kai Bao;Knut-Andreas Lie;Olav Møyner;Ming Liu

  • Numerical methods for the simulation of the settling of flocculated suspensions

    R. Bürger;S. Evje;K. Hvistendahl Karlsen;K.-A. Lie

  • The Open Porous Media Flow reservoir simulator

    Atgeirr Flø Rasmussen;Tor Harald Sandve;Kai Bao;Andreas Lauser

  • Visual simulation of shallow-water waves

    Trond Runar Hagen;Jon M. Hjelmervik;Knut-Andreas Lie;Jostein R. Natvig

  • Operator spltting methods for systems of convection-diffusion equations: Nonlinear error mechanisms and correction strategies

    K. Hvistendahl Karlsen;K. A. Lie;K. A. Lie;J. R. Natvig;H. F. Nordhaug

  • Geometric Modelling, Numerical Simulation, and Optimization

    Geir Hasle;Knut-Andreas Lie;Ewald Quak

  • Geometric modelling, numerical simulation, and optimization : applied mathematics at SINTEF

    Geir Hasle;Knut-Andreas Lie;Ewald Quak

Frequent Co-Authors

Nils Henrik Risebro
Nils Henrik Risebro University of Oslo
Kenneth H. Karlsen
Kenneth H. Karlsen University of Oslo
Helge Holden
Helge Holden Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Xue-Cheng Tai
Xue-Cheng Tai NORCE Research
Jan M. Nordbotten
Jan M. Nordbotten University of Bergen
Akhil Datta-Gupta
Akhil Datta-Gupta Texas A&M University
Tony F. Chan
Tony F. Chan University of California, Los Angeles
Yongfei Yang
Yongfei Yang China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Alvar Braathen
Alvar Braathen University of Oslo

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