The use of fractal geostatistics and artificial neural networks for carbonate reservoir characterization

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 173-195

  Yeten, B ^a   Gumrah F ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Carbonate reservoir characterization; Fractals; Geostatistics

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

FRACTAL GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING;

POROUS MATERIALS;

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE GEOMETRY; NEURAL NETWORK; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR;

EID: 0034331480     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006725709303     Document Type: Article

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