Upscaling immiscible gas displacements: Quantitative use of fine grid flow data in grid coarsening schemes

Proceedings of the SPE Asia Pacific Conference on Integrated Modelling for Asset Management

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 489-502

  Darman, N H ^a   Durlofsky, L J ^b   Sorbie, K S ^a   Pickup, G E ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS DISPLACEMENTS; GRID COARSENING; GRID FLOW; IMMISCIBLE GASES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

EID: 3042771857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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