Compositional Variation in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs with Natural Convection and Diffusion

AIChE Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 452-464

  Riley, Mike F ^a   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^a  

^a RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NATURAL CONVECTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; THERMAL DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

FICKIAN DIFFUSION; POISSON'S EQUATION;

HYDROCARBONS;

DIFFUSION; HYDROCARBON; NATURAL CONVECTION; RESERVOIR;

DIFFUSION; HYDROCARBON; NATURAL CONVECTION; OIL RESERVOIRS;

EID: 0032005585     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690440221     Document Type: Article

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