A 3D Field-Scale Streamline-Based Reservoir Simulator

SPE Reservoir Engineering (Society of Petroleum Engineers)

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 246-253

  Batycky, R P ^a   Blunt, M J ^a   Thiele, M R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OIL WELL FLOODING;

IMPLICIT PRESSURE/EXPLICIT SATURATION EQUATION; STREAMLINE BASED RESERVOIR SIMULATOR;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0031272469     PISSN: 08859248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/36726-pa     Document Type: Article

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