Reservoir description using dynamic parameterisation selection with a combined stochastic and gradient search

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 321-342

  Nielsen, Lars Kristian ^a   Subbey, Sam ^b   Christie, Mike ^c   Mannseth, Trond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive Multiscale Estimation; Gradient optimiser; Inverse problem; Neighbourhood Approximation algorithm; Permeability estimation; Reservoir simulation; Stochastic search algorithm; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; RESERVOIR; STOCHASTICITY; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33748573647     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-006-9026-6     Document Type: Article

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