The sequential method for the black-oil reservoir simulation on unstructured grids

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-72

  Li, Baoyan ^a   Chen, Zhangxin ^a   Huan, Guanren ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black oil model; Control volume function approximation; Fully implicit solution method; Reservoir simulation; Sequential solution method; Unstructured grid

Indexed keywords

LINEAR EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

BLACK-OIL MODELS; CONTROL VOLUME FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; CONTROL VOLUMES; FULLY IMPLICIT SOLUTION METHOD; FUNCTIONS APPROXIMATIONS; IMPLICIT SOLUTIONS; RESERVOIR-SIMULATION; SEQUENTIAL SOLUTION METHOD; SOLUTION METHODS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; VOLUME FUNCTIONS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 0242427702     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00346-2     Document Type: Article

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