A fully adaptive streamline framework for the challenging simulation of gas-injection processes

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4689-4702

  Gerritsen, M G ^a   Jessen, K ^a   Mallison, B T ^a   Lambers, J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE STREAMLINE FRAMEWORK; CARTESIAN CELL-BASED ANISOTROPICALLY REFINED (CCAR); GAS-INJECTION PROCESSES; MULTI-LEVEL LOCAL-GLOBAL (MLLG);

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

AQUIFERS;

EID: 33644800584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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