A generalized streamline method to predict reservoir flow

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 259-269

  Blunt, Martin J ^a   Liu, Kuiran ^a   Thiele, Marco R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Porous media; Simulation; Streamlines

Indexed keywords

FLOW; RESERVOIRS;

DISPERSION; FLUID FLOW; GRAVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 0030450459     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.2.3.259     Document Type: Article

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