Parallel compositional reservoir simulation on clusters of PCs

International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 13-21

  Abate, Jason ^a   Wang, Peng ^b   Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

PARALLEL COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035281117     PISSN: 10943420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109434200101500102     Document Type: Article

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