Adaptive local-global upscaling for general flow scenarios in heterogeneous formations

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-185

  Chen, Yuguang ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelized; Geostatistics; Heterogeneity; Near well; Permeability; Process dependency; Reservoir simulation; Transmissibility; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); TWO PHASE FLOW;

CHANNELIZED SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; GEOSTATISTICS; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATIONS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

CHANNEL FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLOW MODELING;

EID: 33244469295     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-005-0619-7     Document Type: Article

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