The impact of uncertain centrifuge capillary pressure on reservoir simulation

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 537-557

  Subbey, Sam ^a   Christie, Mike ^a   Sambridge, Malcolm ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary pressure; Centrifuge; Ill posed; Inverse; Linear integral equation; Measured data; Stochastic algorithm; Synthetic data; Uncertainty; Volterra; Voronoi cells

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; HYDROCARBONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CAPILLARY PRESSURES; ILL-POSED; INVERSE; MEASURED DATA; STOCHASTIC ALGORITHMS; SYNTHETIC DATA; UNCERTAINTY; VOLTERRA; VORONOI CELLS;

CENTRIFUGES;

EID: 16244378204     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827503426747     Document Type: Article

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