Three-phase equilibrium calculations for compositional simulation

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 118-126

  Haugen, K B ^a   Sun, L ^b   Firoozabadi, A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RERI ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISECTION METHOD; COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATIONS; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; RACHFORD-RICE EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 34249061750     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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