Introduction

This documentation describes the plopm tool hosted in https://github.com/cssr-tools/plopm.

Concept

Simplified and flexible framework for quick visualization of OPM Flow geological models. The approach is the generation of PNG figures from static (e.g, porosity, pore volume fluid in place numbers) and dynamic (e.g., pressure, fluid saturations) properties given any 2D slide with the option to generate GIFs (e.g., the middle part of a reservoir in the xy plane), as well as plotting any given summary vector (e.g., field gas in place a.k.a fgip).

The plopm tool can be useful for quick inspection of geological models, as well as for generation of nice figures for papers/presentations. Also, plopm can plot summary results from different simulation cases in the same figure (e.g., using subplots), as well as the difference between given dynamic variables (e.g., pressure) for two different simulations cases. In addition, plopm can convert OPM Flow output files to vtk, which allows to use other visualization/postprocessing tools (e.g., paraview)

Overview

The current implementation supports the following executable with the argument options:

plopm -i name(s)_of_input_file(s)

where

-i

The base name (or full path) of the input files; if more than one is given, separate them by ‘ ‘ (e.g, ‘SPE11B /home/user/SPE11B_TUNED’) (‘SPE11B’ by default).

-o

The base name (or full path) of the output folder (‘.’ by default, i.e., the folder where plopm is executed).

-v

Specify the name of the vairable to plot, e.g., ‘pressure’, in addition to special extensive quantities for the mass such as ‘grid’, ‘wells’, ‘gasm’, ‘dism’, ‘liqm’, ‘vapm’, ‘co2m’, ‘h2om’, ‘xco2l’, ‘xh2ov’, ‘xco2v’, ‘xh2ol’, ‘fwcdm’, and ‘fgipm’ (‘poro,permx,permz,porv,fipnum,satnum’ by default).

-m

Generate ‘png’, ‘gif’, or ‘vtk’ files (‘png’ by default).

-s

The slide in the 3D model to plot the 2D maps, e.g, ‘10,,’ to plot the xz plane on all cells with i=10 (‘,1,’ by default, i.e., the xz surface at j=1).

-p

Path to flow, e.g., ‘/home/build/bin/flow’. This is used to generate the grid for the vtk files (‘flow’ by default).

-z

Scale the axis in the 2D maps (‘1’ by default).

-f

The font size (‘12’ by default).

-x

Set the lower and upper bounds along x, e.g., ‘[-100,200]’ (’’ by default).

-y

Set the lower and upper bounds along y, e.g., ‘[-10,300]’ (’’ by default).

-u

Use resdata or opm Python libraries (‘resdata’ by default).

-c

Specify the colormap, e.g., ‘jet’, or color(s) for the summary, e.g., ‘b,r’ (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-e

Specify the linestyles, e.g., ‘solid,dotted’ (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-b

Specify the upper and lower bounds for the color map, e.g., ‘[-0.1,11]’ (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-d

Specify the dimensions in inches generated png, e.g., ‘5,5’ (‘8,16’ by default).

-t

Specify the figure title, e.g., ‘Final saturation map’ (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-r

Restart number to plot the dynamic variable, where 0 corresponds to the initial one (‘-1’ by default, i.e., the last restart file).

-a

Scale the mass variable, e.g., 1e-9 for the color bar for the CO2 mass to be in Mt (‘1’ by default).

-tunits

For the x axis in the summary use seconds ‘s’, minutes ‘m’, hours ‘h’, days ‘d’, weeks ‘w’, years ‘y’, or dates ‘dates’ (‘s’ by default).

-ylabel

Text for the y axis (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-xlabel

Text for the x axis (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-ylnum

Number of y axis labels (‘4’ by default).

-xlnum

Number of x axis labels (‘4’ by default).

-cnum

Number of color labels (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-xlog

Use log scale for the x axis (‘0’ by default).

-ylog

Use log scale for the y axis (‘0’ by default).

-clabel

Text for the colorbar (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-labels

Legend in the summary plot, separated by commas if more than one (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-axgrid

Set axis.grid to True for the summary plots (‘1’ by default).

-dpi

Dots per inch for the figure (‘1200’ by default).

-xformat

Format for the x numbers, e.g., .2e for exponential notation (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-yformat

Format for the y numbers, e.g., .1f for one decimal (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-cformat

Specify the format for the numbers in the colormap, e.g., .2f for two decimals (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-xunits

For the x axis in the spatial maps meters ‘m’, kilometers ‘km’, centimeters ‘cm’, or milimeters ‘mm’ (‘m’ by default).

-yunits

For the y axis in the spatial maps meters ‘m’, kilometers ‘km’, centimeters ‘cm’, or milimeters ‘mm’ (‘m’ by default).

-remove

Set the entries to 1 to remove in the spatial maps the left axis, bottom axis, colorbar, and title (‘0,0,0,0’ by default).

-facecolor

Color outside the spatial map (‘w’ by default, i.e., white).

-save

Name of the output files (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm).

-log

Log scale for the color map (‘0’ by default).

-rotate

Grades to rotate the grid in the 2D maps (‘0’ by default).

-translate

Translate the grid in the 2D maps x,y directions (‘[0,0]’ by default).

-global

Min and max in the colorbars from the current 2D slide values (0) or whole 3D model ‘1’ (‘0’ by default).

-ncolor

Color for the inactive cells in the 2D maps (‘w’ by default, i.e., white).

-lw

Line width separated by commas if more than one (‘1’ by default).

-subfigs

Generate separated or a single Figure (e.g., ‘2,2’ for four subfigures) (’’ by default, i.e., separate figures).

-loc

Location of the legend (‘best’ by default).

-delax

Delete aligned axis labels in subfigures (‘0’ by default).

-printv

Print the avaiable variables to plot (‘0’ by default).

-vtkformat

Format for each variable in the vtks, support for Float64, Float32, and UInt16 (‘Float64’ by default).

-vtknames

Label each variable in the written vtk (’’ by default, i.e., the names given in the -v argument).

-mask

Static variable to use as 2D map background (’’ by default).

-diff

The base name (or full path) of the input file to substract (’’ by default).

-suptitle

Title for the subfigures (’’ by default, i.e., set by plopm, if 0, then it is removed; otherwise, write the text).

-cbsfax

Set the global axis position and size for the colorbar (‘0.40,0.01,0.2,0.02’ by default).

-vmin

Set a minimum threshold to remove values in the variable (’’ by default).

-vmax

Set a maximum threshold to remove values in the variable (’’ by default).

-maskthr

Set the threshold for the variable to mask “ “(‘1e-3’ by default).

-interval

Time for the frames in the GIF in milli second (‘1000’ by default).

-loop

Set to 1 for infinity loop in the GIF (‘0’ by default).

Tip

Type in the terminal plopm -h to show these argument options.