Rapid flash calculations for compositional simulation

SPE Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 521-529

  Li, Yinghui ^a   Johns, Russell T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE COMPOSITION;

BINARY INTERACTION PARAMETERS; COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION; FLASH CALCULATIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE COMPOSITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUE; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 33751092511     PISSN: 10946470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/95732-pa     Document Type: Article

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