Interplay of Phase Behavior and Numerical Dispersion in Finite Difference Compositional Simulation

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 111-125

  Jessen, Kristian ^a   Stenby, Erling H ^b   Orr Jr , Franklin M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINIMUM MISCIBILITY ENRICHMENT (MME); MULTICONTACT MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENTS; NUMERICAL DISPERSION;

COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEAT CONVECTION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

INJECTION (OIL WELLS);

EID: 1642558163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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