Unstructured-coarse-grid generation usina backaround-grid approach

SPE Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 326-340

  Evazi, M ^a   Mahani, H ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Shell Exploration and Production International   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; VORTICITY;

DELAUNAY TESSELLATIONS; FLUID VELOCITIES; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GRID GENERATION; HETEROGENEOUS TESTS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE QUALITIES;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 77954856360     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/120170-pa     Document Type: Article

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