Prof. dr. ir. J.D. (Jan Dirk) Jansen

Prof. dr. ir. Jan Dirk Jansen
Professor Reservoir Systems and Control
Department Head Geoscience and Engineering
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Office: Stevinweg 1, room 03.13
2628 CN Delft
Mail address: PO box 5048
2600 GA Delft
Phone: +31 (0) 152 787 838
Mobile: +31 (0) 630 184 910
E-mail: j.d.jansen@tudelft.nl

Area of research

Smart wells and smart fields (System theory for production optimization and reservoir management)

Publications

Full list of publications 

Some recent ones on smart fields technology:

• Van Doren, J.F.M., Van den Hof, P.M.J., Bosgra, O.H., and Jansen, J.D., 2013:
  Controllability and observability in two-phase porous media flow
  Accepted for publication in Computational Geosciences. 
• Van Essen G.M., Van den Hof, P.M.J. and Jansen, J.D., 2013:
  A two-level strategy to realize life-cycle production optimization in an operational setting
  Accepted for publication in SPE Journal.
• Farshbaf Zinati, F., Jansen, J.D. and Luthi, S.M., 2012:
  Estimating the specific productivity index in horizontal wells from distributed pressure measurements using an adjoint-based minimization algorithm
  SPE Journal 17 (3) 742-751. DOI: 10.2118/135223-PA.
• Vakili-Ghahani, S.A. and Jansen, J.D., 2012:
  A system-theoretical approach to selective grid coarsening of reservoir models
  Computational Geosciences 16 (1) 159-176. DOI: 10.1007/s10596-011-9260-4.
• Jansen, J.D., 2011:
  Adjoint-based optimization of multiphase flow through porous media – a review
  Computers and Fluids 46 (1) 40-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.09.039.
• Van Essen, G.M., Van den Hof, P.M.J. and Jansen, J.D., 2011:
  Hierarchical long-term and short-term production optimization
  SPE Journal 16 (1) 191-199. DOI: 10.2118/124332-PA.
• Kaleta, M.P., Hanea, R.G., Heemink, A.W. and Jansen, J.D., 2011:
  Model-reduced gradient-based history matching
  Computational Geosciences 15 (1) 135-153. DOI: 10.1007/s10596-010-9203-5.
• Van Essen, G.M., Jansen, J.D., Brouwer, D.R. Douma, S.G., Zandvliet, M.J., Rollett, K.I. and Harris, D.P., 2010:
  Optimization of smart wells in the St. Joseph field
  SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering 13 (4) 588-595. DOI: 10.2118/123563-PA.
• Vakili-Ghahani, S.A. and Jansen, J.D., 2010:
  Control-relevant upscaling
  SPE Journal 15 (2) 471-479. DOI: 10.2118/113647-PA.
• Rommelse, J.R., Jansen, J.D. and Heemink, A.W., 2010:
  An efficient weak-constraint gradient-based parameter estimation algorithm using representer expansions
  SPE Journal 15 (1) 18-30. DOI: 10.2118/120120-PA.
• Van Essen, G.M., Zandvliet, M.J., Van den Hof, P.M.J., Bosgra, O.H. and Jansen, J.D., 2009:
  Robust waterflooding optimization of multiple geological scenarios
  SPE Journal 14 (1) 202-210. DOI: 10.2118/102913-PA.
• Jansen, J.D., Douma, S.G., Brouwer, D.R., Van den Hof, P.M.J., Bosgra, O.H. and Heemink, A.W., 2009:
  Closed-loop reservoir management
  Paper SPE 119098 presented at the SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, The Woodlands, USA, 2-4- February.
• Zandvliet, M.J., van Doren, J.F.M., Bosgra, O.H., Jansen, J.D. and van den Hof, P.M.J., 2008:
  Controllability, observability and identifiability in single-phase porous media flow
  Computational Geosciences 12 (4) 605-622. DOI: 10.1007/s10596-008-9100-3.
• Jansen, J.D., Bosgra, O.H. and van den Hof, P.M.J., 2008:
  Model-based control of multiphase flow in subsurface oil reservoirs
  Journal of Process Control 18 (9) 846-855. DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2008.06.011.
• Zandvliet, M.J., Bosgra, O.H., Van den Hof, P.M.J., Jansen, J.D. and Kraaijevanger, J.F.B.M., 2007:
  Bang-bang control and singular arcs in reservoir flooding
  Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 58, 186-200. DOI: 10.1016/j.petrol.2006.12.008.
• Markovinovic, R. and Jansen, J.D., 2006:
  Acceleration of iterative solution methods using reduced-order models as solution predictors
  Int. J. for Numerical Methods in Engineering 68, 525-541, DOI: 10.1002/nme.1721.
• Van Doren, J.F.M., Markovinovic, R. and Jansen, J.D., 2006:
  Reduced-order optimal control of waterflooding using POD
  Computational Geosciences 10 (1) 137-158, DOI: 10.1007/s10596-005-9014-2.
• Naus, M.M.J.J., Dolle, N. and Jansen, J.D., 2006:
  Optimisation of commingled production using infinitely variable inflow control valves
  SPE Production and Operations 21 (2) 293-301. DOI: 10.2118/90959-PA.
• Brouwer, D.R. and Jansen, J.D., 2004:
  Dynamic optimization of water flooding with smart wells using optimal control theory
  SPE Journal 9 (4) 391-402. DOI: 10.2118/78278-PA.
• Heijn, T., Markovinović, R. and Jansen, J.D., 2004:
  Generation of low-order reservoir models using system-theoretical concepts
  SPE Journal 9 (2) 202-218. DOI: 10.2118/88361-PA.

Some early ones on drillstring vibrations (no longer my area of research):

• Jansen, J.D. and van den Steen, L., 1995:
  Active damping of self-excited torsional vibrations in oil well drill strings
  J. of Sound and Vibration 179 (4) 647-668. DOI: 10.1006/jsvi.1995.0042.
• Jansen, J.D., 1993:
  Nonlinear dynamics of oil well drill strings
  PhD dissertation Delft University of Technology, Delft University Press, Delft.
• Jansen, J.D., 1992:
  Whirl and chaotic motion of stabilized drill collars
  SPE Drilling Eng. 7 (2) 107-114. DOI: 10.2118/20930-PA.
• Jansen, J.D., 1991:
  Nonlinear rotor dynamics as applied to oil well drill string vibrations
  J. of Sound and Vibration 147 (1) 115-135. DOI: 10.1016/0022-460X(91)90687-F.