Two-phase multicomponent diffusion and convection for reservoir initialization

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 530-542

  Nasrabadi, Hadi ^a,c   Ghorayeb, Kassem ^b,d   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

^d Branch of Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMODYNAMICS;

MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; PRESSURE DIFFUSION; TWO-PHASE MULTICOMPONENT DIFFUSION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; NATURAL CONVECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CONVECTION; DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 33751076250     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/66365-pa     Document Type: Article

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