Upscaling immiscible gas displacements: Quantitative use of fine-grid flow data in grid-coarsening schemes

SPE Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 47-56

  Darman, N H ^a   Durlofsky, L J ^a   Sorbie, K S ^a   Pickup, G E ^a  

^a PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SOLUBILITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

GRID COARSENING SCHEMES;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0035275894     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/69674-PA     Document Type: Article

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