History matching with parameterization based on the singular value decomposition of a dimensionless sensitivity matrix

SPE Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 495-508

  Tavakoli, Reza ^b   Reynolds, Albert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PARAMETERIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

AUTOMATIC HISTORY MATCHING; DIMENSIONLESS SENSITIVITIES; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT ALGORITHM; LIMITED MEMORY BROYDEN-FLETCHER-GOLDFARB-SHANNO; NONLINEAR CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; QUASI-NEWTON METHODS; SENSITIVITY COEFFICIENT; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 77954844877     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/118952-pa     Document Type: Article

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