Integrated conditional global optimisation for discrete fracture network modelling

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-27

  Tran, Nam H ^a   Chen, Zhixi ^a   Rahman, Sheik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Naturally fractured reservoir; Object based; Simulated annealing; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOSTATISTICS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIR; OBJECT BASED MODELLING; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FRACTURE NETWORK; OPTIMIZATION; ROCK MECHANICS;

EID: 28444435862     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.03.019     Document Type: Article

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