A control-volume finite-element method for three-dimensional multiphase basin modeling

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 504-518

  Mello, Ulisses T ^a   Rodrigues, José Roberto P ^b   Rossa, André L ^c  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^c ESSS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Compaction; Multiphase porous media flow; Numerical basin modeling; Three dimensional tetrahedral

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY LAGRANGIAN-EULERIAN FORMULATIONS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; COMPOSITIONAL MODELS; CONTROL-VOLUME FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; CONVERGENCE RATES; COUPLED PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GENERALIZED MINIMAL RESIDUAL METHODS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; HYDROCARBON GENERATIONS; IMPLICIT METHODS; INNER ITERATIONS; INTEGRATED PROCESS; MASS CONCENTRATIONS; MESH ELEMENTS; MULTI-PHASE FLUID FLOWS; MULTIPHASE POROUS MEDIA FLOW; NEWTON METHODS; NON-LINEAR PDES; NUMERICAL BASIN MODELING; POROUS MEDIAS; PRECONDITIONER; SEDIMENT DEPOSITIONS; SEDIMENTARY BASINS; SPARSE JACOBIANS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TETRAHEDRAL; TIME-SCALES; UNSTRUCTURED TETRAHEDRAL MESHES;

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; COMPACTION; DEFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDROCARBONS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 63349109517     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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