A timestepping scheme for coupled reservoir flow and geomechanics on nonmatching grids

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4081-4091

  Gai, X ^a   Sun, S ^a   Wheeler, M F ^a   Klie, H ^b  

^a SPE ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; EXTRAPOLATION; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS;

GEOMECHANICS MODELS; GRID INTERSECTION; RESERVOIR FLOW; SUBELEMENTS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33644799434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/97054-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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