Dynamic optimization for the core-flooding problem in reservoir engineering

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1787-1800

  Kameswaran, Shivakumar ^a   Biegler, Lorenz T ^a   Staus, George H ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity constraints; Core flooding problem; NLP; Parameter estimation; PDEs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORE ANALYSIS; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RELIABILITY;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CORE-FLOODING PROBLEMS; FLOW FLUCTUATIONS; TWO-PHASE FLOW DISPLACEMENTS;

OIL WELL FLOODING;

COMPUTER;

EID: 22944448078     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2005.02.038     Document Type: Article

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