Optimal coarsening of 3D reservoir models for flow simulation

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1415-1429

  King, M J ^a   Burn, K S ^b   Wang, P ^b   Muralidharan, V ^b   Alvarado, F ^b   Ma, X ^a   Datta Gupta, A ^c  

^a SPE ^*

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c Centre for Translational Cancer Research IBT Texas A and M HSC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL WELLS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

FLOW SIMULATION; OPTIMAL LAYER COARSENING; RESERVOIR MODELS; WORKFLOWS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33644794480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/95759-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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