Phase equilibrium computations are no longer the bottleneck in thermal compositional EoS based simulation

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 1087-1103

  Iranshahr, A ^a   Voskov, D V ^a   Tchelepi, H A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE;

COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR; FUNCTION OF PRESSURE; ISOTHERMAL COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION; PARAMETERIZATION METHOD; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SUB- AND SUPER-CRITICAL; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 70449553446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/119166-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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