A simplified approach to couple wellbore flow and reservoir inflow for arbitrary well configurations

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 1999-September, Issue , 1998, Pages 79-91

  Ouyang, Liang Biao ^a   Aziz, Khalid ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BOREHOLES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRICTION; GRAVITATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE; PRESSURE DROP;

COUPLING MODEL; KINETIC ENERGY CHANGE; WALL FRICTION;

HORIZONTAL WELLS;

EID: 0031625767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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