Efficient real-time reservoir management using adjoint-based optimal control and model updating

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-36

  Sarma, Pallav ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a   Aziz, Khalid ^a   Chen, Wen H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint; Bayesian inversion; Closed loop; History matching; Karhunen Loeve; Model updating; Optimal control; Optimization; Reservoir simulation; Uncertainty; Waterflood

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; WELL FLOODING;

ALGORITHM; GEOSTATISTICS; MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS;

EID: 33646931169     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-005-9009-z     Document Type: Article

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