Monte Carlo simulation of permeability fields and reservoir performance predictions with SVD parameterization in RML compared with EnKF

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-116

  Tavakoli, Reza ^a   Reynolds, Albert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic history matching; Ensemble Kalman filter; Randomized maximum likelihood; Singular value decomposition; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESERVOIR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650689877     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-010-9200-8     Document Type: Article

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