Adaptive local-global VCMP methods for coarse-scale reservoir modeling

SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 633-648

  Chen, T ^a   Gerritsen, M G ^a   Durlofsky, L J ^a   Lambers, J V ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TENSORS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COARSE MODELS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OIL WATER FLOW; OVERALL ACCURACIES; RESERVOIR MODELING; TENSOR PERMEABILITY; UNDERLYING COMPONENTS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 70450193497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/118994-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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