Including nonequilibrium relaxation in models for rapid multiphase flow in wells

SPE Production and Operations

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-106

  Civan, Faruk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELLS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

DIFFERENTIAL MASS; ENERGY-BALANCE EQUATIONS; MOMENTUM;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLUME FRACTION;

FLOW MODELING; GAS WELL; MULTIPHASE FLOW; WELLHEAD;

EID: 33745798398     PISSN: 19301855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/90583-pa     Document Type: Article

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