Morten Rode Kristensen

 

Personal

EDUCATION


Ph.D. (Chem. Eng.), Technical University of Denmark
Department of Chemical Engineering
January 2008

M.Sc. (Chem. Eng.), Technical University of Denmark
Department of Chemical Engineering
August 2004


RESEARCH and EXCHANGE VISITS


Visiting Ph.D. student
Department of Energy Resources Engineering
Stanford University, USA
Advisor: Assistant Professor Margot Gerritsen
September 2006 - March 2007

Visiting Ph.D. student
Department of Petroleum Engineering
Stanford University, USA
Advisor: Assistant Professor Margot Gerritsen
April - October 2005

Exchange student
University of Queensland, Australia
July - December 2002

 
EXPERIENCE
 


Research assistant
2-Control ApS
Research project: Sensitivity Computation in Differential Equation Systems
June - August 2003

Student intern (part time)
Mærsk Oil and Gas AS
, Copenhagen
Responsibilities: System administration and computer help desk
June 2000 - May 2002


ACADEMIC AWARDS


Best M.Sc. thesis award at Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, in 2004 (shared with Tobias Dokkedal Elmøe).

First prize in the 2003 McKinsey & Co. competition. Awarded for best B.Sc. thesis at the Technical University of Denmark in 2003 (shared with Kent Johansen and Jakob Sloth).
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE


Assistant teacher in:

  • Thermodynamic Models: Fundamentals and Computational Aspects, Summer 2006

  • Numerical Solution of Mathematical Models in Chemical Engineering, Spring 2006

  • Mathematical Analysis and Models for Chemical Systems, Fall 2004


AFFILIATIONS



Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

 


Research RESEARCH INTERESTS
 

  • Numerical methods in reservoir simulation

  • Numerical methods for chemically reacting flows

  • Modelling and simulation of in-situ combustion enhanced oil recovery

  • Sensitivity computation and inverse problems in ODE/DAE systems

 

Ph.D. THESIS


Topic: Development of Models and Algorithms for the Study of Reactive Porous Media Processes

Advisors: Professor Erling H. Stenby
              Department of Chemical Engineering
              Reader Michael L. Michelsen
              Department of Chemical Engineering
              Reader Per G. Thomsen
              Informatics and Mathematical Modelling

 

MASTERS THESIS


Title: “Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems” [pdf]

Advisors: Reader Michael L. Michelsen
             
Department of Chemical Engineering
              Reader Per G. Thomsen
              Informatics and Mathematical Modelling

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES
 

[4].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby. “An Equation-of-State Compositional In-Situ Combustion Model: A Study of Phase Behavior Sensitivity”, Transport in Porous Media, 76(2):219-246, 2009. [abstract]

[3].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby. “Efficient Integration of Stiff Kinetics with Phase Change Detection for Reactive Reservoir Processes”, Transport in Porous Media, 69(3):383-409, 2007. [abstract]

[2].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen and Henrik Madsen. “Efficient Numerical Implementation of the Continuous Discrete Extended Kalman Filter”, submitted to Computers and Chemical Engineering, 2007. [abstract]

[1].   Morten R. Kristensen, John B. Jørgensen, Per G. Thomsen and Sten B. Jørgensen. “An ESDIRK Method with Sensitivity Analysis Capabilities”, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 28(12):2695-2707, 2004. [abstract]

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS


[10].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby, "An Equation-of-State Compositional In-Situ Combustion Model", SPE 113947, In Proceedings of the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Symposium, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, April 21-23, 2008.

[9].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby, "Integration of Chemical Reactions in Reservoir Simulation", In Proceedings of the 28th International Energy Agency Symposium on Enhanced Oil Recovery, Vedbæk, Denmark, September 4-7, 2007.

[8].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen, Henrik Madsen, "A Computationally Efficient and Robust Implementation of the Continuous-Discrete Extended Kalman Filter", In proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York City, USA, July 11-13, 2007.

[7].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen, Henrik Madsen, "A Numerically Robust ESDIRK-Based Implementation of the Continuous-Discrete Extended Kalman Filter", In proceedings of the European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007.

[6].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby, "Coupling Chemical Kinetics and Flashes in Reactive, Thermal and Compositional Reservoir Simulation", SPE 106218, In Proceedings of the SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, February 26-28, 2007.

[5].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby, "Efficient Reaction Integration for In-Situ Combustion Simulation", In Proceedings of the 27th International Energy Agency Symposium on Enhanced Oil Recovery, Paris, France, September 19-22, 2006.

[4].   Morten R. Kristensen, Margot G. Gerritsen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby, "Efficient Integration of Stiff Kinetics in Reactive Compositional and Thermal Porous Media Processes", In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery (ECMOR X), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 4-7, 2006.

[3].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen and Henrik Madsen, “Numerically Efficient and Robust Filtering and Prediction in Stochastic Differential Algebraic Equations”, In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Freudenstadt-Lauterbad, Germany, August 26-30, 2005.

[2].   Morten R. Kristensen, John B. Jørgensen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Sten B. Jørgensen. “Sensitivity Analysis in Index-1 Differential-Algebraic Equations by ESDIRK Methods”, In Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, July 3-8, 2005.

[1].   Morten R. Kristensen, John B. Jørgensen, Per G. Thomsen and Sten B. Jørgensen. “Efficient Sensitivity Computation for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control”, In Frank Allgöwer (editor), 6th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2004), 723-729, Stuttgart, Germany, September 1-3, 2004.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS


[1].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen and Henrik Madsen, “New Extended Kalman Filter Algorithms for Stochastic Differential Algebraic Equations”, Assessment and Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, Springer Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences Series; Rolf Findeisen, Frank Allgöwer, Lorenz Biegler (Eds.), Vol. 358, 2007.

 

OTHER CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS


[6].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen and Per G. Thomsen, A Family of ESDIRK Solvers for DAE Systems, Oral presentation at the European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-6), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007.

[5].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen and Kent Johansen, Dynamic Optimization Based on Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis, Oral presentation at the European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-6), Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007.

[4].   Morten R. Kristensen, John B. Jørgensen and Per G. Thomsen, A Family of ESDIRK Solvers for DAE Systems, Oral presentation at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, USA, November 2006.

[3].   John. B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Kent Johansen and Per G. Thomsen, Dynamic Optimization Based on Adjoint Sensitivity Computation, Oral presentation at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, USA, November 2006.

[2].   John B. Jørgensen, Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen and Henrik Madsen, A Continuous-Discrete Extended Kalman Filter Algorithm for Prediction-Error-Modelling, Oral presentation at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2006, San Francisco, USA, November 2006.

[1].   Morten R. Kristensen, Per G. Thomsen, Michael L. Michelsen and Erling H. Stenby, Numerical Algorithms for In-Situ Combustion Reaction Integration, Poster presentation at the Danish Chemical Engineering Conference (DK2) 2006, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, June 2006.