Multiscale mimetic solvers for efficient streamline simulation of fractured reservoirs

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 956-964

  Natvig, J R ^a   Skaflestad, B ^a   Bratvedt, F ^b   Bratvedt, K ^b   Lie, K A ^a   Laptev, V ^b   Khataniar, S K ^b  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; COARSE GRID; COMPLEX SHAPES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; FRACTURE CORRIDORS; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOLOGICAL OBJECT; GRID DISTORTION; ITERATIVE MODELING; LIMITED SENSITIVITY; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MIMETIC PRESSURES; MULTIPOINT; MULTISCALE SOLVERS; MULTISCALES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SCALE MODELS; SIMULATION APPROACH; SIMULATION GRID; SIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES; STREAMLINE SIMULATION; VOLUMETRIC OBJECT; WORK-FLOWS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COST REDUCTION; FRACTURE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; SIMULATORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 70449587170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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