IMPES stability: Selection of stable timesteps

SPE Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 181-187

  Coats, K H ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL METHODS; TENSORS; VISCOSITY;

BLACK OIL; COCURRENT FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL MODELS; COUNTERCURRENT FLOW CONFIGURATIONS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL THREE PHASE FLOW; STABILITY CRITERION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

EID: 0038112106     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/84924-PA     Document Type: Article

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