Streamline tracing on general triangular or quadrilateral grids

SPE Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-223

  Matringe, Sébastien F ^a   Juanes, Ruben ^b   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRID COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATION; HIGHER-ORDER TRACING METHODS; STREAMLINE TRACING ALGORITHM;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 34249044589     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/96411-pa     Document Type: Article

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