Challenges and technologies in reservoir modeling

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Branets, Larisa V ^a   Ghai, Sartaj S ^a   Lyons, Stephen L ^a   Wu, Xiao Hui ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Global scale up; Grid adaptation; Grid generation; Reservoir modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650976537     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.2009.v6.p1     Document Type: Review

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