Estimation of flow functions during drainage using genetic algorithm

SPE Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 449-457

  Sun, Xuefei ^a   Mohanty, Kishore K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DRAINAGE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE;

AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; FLOW FUNCTIONS; PIECE-WISE SPLINE INTERPOLATION;

MULTIPHASE FLOW;

EID: 31144476758     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/84548-pa     Document Type: Article

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