Fast and robust algorithm for compositional modeling: Part II - Two-phase flash computations

SPE Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 380-391

  Pan, Huanquan ^a,b   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Drug Metabolism Pharmacokinetics Clinical Pharmacology   (United States)

^c RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPOSITIONAL MODELING; DOMINANT EIGENVALUE METHOD; QUASI-NEWTON METHOD; SUCCESSIVE SUBSTITUTION; TANGENT-PLANE-DISTANCE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0346640495     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87335-PA     Document Type: Article

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