Investigation of field scale dispersion

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 809-827

  John, Abraham K ^a   Lake, Larry W ^a   Bryant, Steven L ^a   Jennings, James W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Shell ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; OIL FIELDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

DISPERSIVE MIXING; FIELD-SCALE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; PERMEABILITY HETEROGENEITY; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SIGNIFICANT MIXING;

MIXING;

EID: 55249094877     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/113429-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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