Optimal coarsening of 3D reservoir models for flow simulation

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 317-334

  King, Michael J ^a   Burn, Karam S ^a   Wang, Pengju ^a   Muralidharan, Venkataramanan ^a   Alvarado, Freddy ^b   Ma, Xianlin ^c   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^c  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL WELLS; OPTIMIZATION;

FLOW SIMULATION; RESERVOIR HETEROGENEITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL WELLS; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 33748755976     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/95759-pa     Document Type: Article

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