Preferential Flow-Paths Detection for Heterogeneous Reservoirs Using a New Renormalization Technique

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-23

  Gautier, Yann ^a   Nœtinger, Benoit ^a  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Local flux; Permeability; Renormalization; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE DROP; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; LOCAL FLUX ESTIMATION; RENORMALIZATION TECHNIQUE; TWO DIMENSIONAL POROUS MEDIA; UPSCALED PERMEABILITIES;

FLOW OF WATER;

PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIA; RESERVOIRS;

HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; RENORMALIZATION; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 0030985867     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006515616347     Document Type: Article

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