On the stability of pressure and velocity computations for heterogeneous reservoirs

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 994-1007

  Bruaset, Are Magnus ^a   Nielsen, Bjørn Fredrik ^b  

^a SINTEF   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Elliptic problems; Perturbation theory; Reservoir simulation; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ESTIMATION; GRAVITATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); VELOCITY;

COEFFICIENT FUNCTIONS; ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; MOBILITY PERTURBATION; PRESSURE EQUATIONS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0030215958     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139994266694     Document Type: Article

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