Rapid flash calculations for compositional modeling

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1353-1362

  Li, Y ^a   Johns, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE COMPOSITION; PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

BINARY INTERACTION PARAMETERS (BIP); COMPOSITIONAL MODELING; FLASH CALCULATIONS; QUADRATIC EXPRESSION;

COMPOSITION EFFECTS;

EID: 33644796503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/95732-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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