An efficient discrete-fracture model applicable for general-purpose reservoir simulators

SPE Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227-236

  Karimi Fard, Mohammad ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a,b   Aziz, Khalid ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

DISCRETE FRACTURE MODEL; GEOMETRICAL DISCRETIZATION; MULTIPLE INTERSECTING FRACTURE; RESEVOIR SIMULATORS; STAR DELTA TRANSFORMATION; TRANSMISSIBILITY EVALUATINO; TWO POINT FLUX APPROXIMATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 4344671105     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/88812-PA     Document Type: Article

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