Monthly Archives: January 2022
The discovery of oil and gas fields is the main goal of seismic exploration. Actually, most of today’s industrial activities still rely on hydrocarbons. However, oil exploration is an expensive, high-risk operation, and the oil companies want to be sure that it is worth drilling a new oil well. Thus, […]
Sedimentary basins are among the best places to find petroleum and natural gas and to store nuclear waste material. The history of the basin has a deep impact on the characteristic of the oil generated: the evolution and the temperature of the sediments determine localization, quantity and quality of the […]
In recent years, geostatistics has assumed a key role in modeling and predicting geophysical variables. The main goal of geostatistics is to provide methodologies able to describe and forecast quantitative variables distributed over space, or space-time.The focus of the project is posed on the geostatistical modeling and prediction of complex […]
Subsurface flows are strongly influenced by the presence of fractures. While small and micro-fractures can be easily accounted for by means of upscaling techniques, large fractures and faults play a more complex role, acting as paths or barriers for the flow. These effects are very relevant for many applications such […]
Plate tectonics is a theory that describes the evolution of Earth’s lithosphere. The lithosphere is broken up in a set of regions called plates moving on the fluid-like asthenosphere; due to this motions earthquakes, volcanic activity and orogeny occur along plates boundaries. The relative motions of plates determine the type […]
We are investigating geomechanical problems in the presence of fractures and faults. We suppose that the physical model consists of two parts: the solid component representing the crust porous material, and the fluid component that represents water and, eventually, oil and/or gas. The solid model is then augmented taking into […]
From March 1st to 14th, the MOX Laboratory will be the featured node on the website of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI). ECMI is a consortium of academic institutions and industrial companies that promote and support the use of mathematical modelling, simulation, and optimization in any activity of […]
The next congress of the Italian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics will take place in Rome, Italy, from the 2nd to the 6th of July 2018. It is an important occasion for Industrial and Applied Mathematician from Italy and beyond to exchange ideas and share their research. Among the […]
Abele Simona, PhD student at MOX and group member, along with other group members and co-authors at CEA, Saclay, presented results of the simulation of relativistic particle motion in a magnetic quadrupole in a poster at the International Particle Accelerator Conference in Vancouver, April 2018. The poster summary can be […]