Streamline simulation: A current perspective

In Situ

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-140

  King, Michael J ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^b  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

FIELD TRACER RESPONSE ANALYSIS; GRID ORIENTATION EFFECTS; STREAMLINE SIMULATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0031998094     PISSN: 01462520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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