History matching of facies distribution with the EnKF and level set parameterization

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 8011-8030

  Chang, Haibin ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^a,b   Lu, Zhiming ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman filter; Facies distribution; Level set parameterization

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; KALMAN FILTERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SET THEORY;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; FILTER SETS; GAUSSIANS; HISTORY MATCHING; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET PARAMETERIZATION; LEVEL-SET FUNCTION; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; RANDOM NUMBERS;

PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 77955519053     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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