An ensemble level upscaling approach for efficient estimation of fine-scale production statistics using coarse-scale simulations

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 187-200

  Chen, Yuguang ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FLUID MOBILITY RATIOS; LEVEL UPSCALING; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SINGLE PHASE PARAMETERS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 34249095445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/106086-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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