Large-eddy simulation (NEK5000) of an idealized, subsurface single-phase oil-gas plume

A turbulence resolving simulation of a near-field plume is conducted using a nonhydrostatic Navier-Stokes solver (NEK5000). The computation is conducted using a 17th order spatial discretization for numerical accuracy and on about 900 cores of a recent Cray XE6m. The single-phase plume is driven by momentum and buoyancy anomalies at the inlet. Once the plume reaches a steady state through open upper boundary conditions, an injection of a passive tracer is carried out to explore possible mixing characteristics of dispersants. This dataset was created by the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE).