An analysis of upscaling techniques for reservoir simulation

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 827-842

  Qi, Dasheng ^a,b   Hesketh, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Power law averaging; Renormalization; Reservoir simulation; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SEDIMENTATION;

POWER LOW AVERAGING; RENORMALIZATION; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; UPSCALING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 24944531181     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/LFT-200033132     Document Type: Article

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