A novel approach to integrate dual porosity model and full permeability tensor representation in fractures

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 679-699

  Tarahhom, Farhad ^a   Sepehrnoori, Kamy ^a   Marcondes, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROSITY; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC FRACTURES; COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; NATURALLY FRACTURED RESERVOIRS; PERMEABILITY TENSORS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 70449492031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/119001-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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