Estimation of Flow Functions during Drainage Using Genetic Algorithm

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 5055-5070

  Sun, Xuefei ^a   Mohanty, Kishore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CONVERGENCE PROPERTY; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SCANNING;

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING;

EID: 1142264270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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