The ensemble Kalman filter for continuous updating of reservoir simulation models

Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 79-87

  Gu, Yaqing ^a,b   Oliver, Dean S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX; HISTORY MATCHING; STATE VECTORS; SYNTHETIC PROBLEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); VECTORS;

KALMAN FILTERING;

EID: 33745949093     PISSN: 01950738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2134735     Document Type: Article

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