Iterative coupling reservoir simulation on high performance computers

Petroleum Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-50

  Lu, Bo ^a   Wheeler, Mary F ^b  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Iterative coupling; Multiphase flow; Parallel scalability; Phase scaling; Reservoir simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649336989     PISSN: 16725107     EISSN: 19958226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12182-009-0008-x     Document Type: Article

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