Modelling of Sand Production and Wormhole Propagation in an Oil Saturated Sand Pack Using Stabilized Finite Element Methods

Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 45-52

  Wan, Richard G ^a   Wang, Jin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Taurus Reservoir Solutions Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROSITY; SAND;

FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HYDRO-MECHANICAL EFFECTS; SAND PACKS; WORMHOLE PROPAGATION;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 2342566536     PISSN: 00219487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/04-04-04     Document Type: Article

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