Balanced restoration of geological volumes with relaxed meshing constraints

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-452

  Durand Riard, Pauline ^a   Caumon, Guillaume ^a   Muron, Pierre ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced restoration; Geomechanics; Implicit surface; Structural geology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONFORMING MESHES; CONTACT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GEOMECHANICS; IMPLICIT METHODS; IMPLICIT SURFACE; IMPLICIT SURFACES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MESH ELEMENTS; MESH QUALITY; NEIGHBORING NODES; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; STRUCTURAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL SETTING; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DEFORMATION; MODEL STRUCTURES; RESTORATION; SURFACES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMECHANICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 77649234895     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2009.07.007     Document Type: Article

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