Modeling complex wells with the multi-scale finite-volume method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 687-702

  Jenny, Patrick ^a   Lunati, Ivan ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gravity; Heterogeneous media; Multi phase flow; Multi scale finite volume; Porous media; Well modeling

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPLEX WELL; FINITE-VOLUME; FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; MULTI-PHASE FLOWS; MULTI-SCALE FINITE-VOLUME; MULTI-SCALES; POROUS MEDIUM; WELL MODEL; WELLBORE;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 57649096964     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.09.026     Document Type: Article

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