Use of prior information in gradient-based history matching

SPE Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-78

  Brun, Bertrand ^a   Gosselin, Olivier ^a   Barker, John W ^b  

^a London Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRADIENT METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; GRADIENT BASED HISTORY MATCHING; GRADZONE ANALYSIS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 1942453298     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/87680-PA     Document Type: Article

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