An automatic history matching module with distributed and parallel computing

Petroleum Science and Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1092-1108

  Liang, B ^a   Sepehrnoori, K ^a   Delshad, M ^a  

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

Author keywords

Distributed; Ensemble Kalman filter; History matching; Parallel

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISTRIBUTED; DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL COMPUTING; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; EXECUTION TIME; FIELD DATA; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; HISTORY MATCHING; MATCHING PERFORMANCE; MODULE-BASED; PARALLEL; RESERVOIR MODELS; RESERVOIR PROPERTY; RESERVOIR SIMULATION MODEL; SEQUENTIAL METHODS; SIMULATION RESPONSE; WATER ALTERNATING WITH GAS; WATERFLOODING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTROL THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SIMULATORS; WELL FLOODING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 67651174562     PISSN: 10916466     EISSN: 15322459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10916460802455962     Document Type: Article

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