Full field streamline tracing in complex faulted systems with non-neighbor connections

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 796-808

  Jimenez, Eduardo A ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^a   King, Michael J ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FACES; CELL GEOMETRIES; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DEGREES OF FREEDOMS; FAULTED SYSTEMS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; FLUID FLOWS; FLUX CALCULATIONS; FULL FIELD MODELS; FULL FIELDS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; LOCAL GRID REFINEMENTS; LOCAL GRIDS; LOCAL REFINEMENTS; MULTIPLE CELLS; PHYSICAL FLOWS; STREAMLINE TRACINGS; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRACING ALGORITHMS; VELOCITY INTERPOLATIONS;

CELLS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FLUXES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 55249112082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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