SPE 122611 non-Darcy porous media flow according to the Barree and Conway model: Laboratory and numerical modeling studies

SPE Rocky Mountain Petroleum Technology Conference 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 80-94

  Lai, Bitao ^a   Miskimins, Jennifer L ^a   Wu, Yu Shu ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DARCY EQUATIONS; DISCRETE FRACTURES; DISCRETIZATIONS; FIRST-ORDER; FLOWTHROUGH; FRACTURED MEDIA; FRACTURED ROCK; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; HIGH-FLOW RATE; INJECTION WELLS; IRREGULAR MESHES; LARGE FLOW RATE; LINEAR FLOWS; NEWTON ITERATIONS; NON-DARCY FLOW; NON-DARCY POROUS MEDIA; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; NUMERICAL FORMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELING APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POTENTIAL GRADIENTS; PROPPANT PACKS; RESERVOIR SIMULATOR; SINGLE EQUATION; TIME DISCRETIZATION; TRANSIENT FLOW BEHAVIOR; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

FLOW RATE; FLOW SIMULATION; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LANDFORMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SIMULATORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 70350610490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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