Upscaling of Two-Phase Immiscible Flows in Communicating Stratified Reservoirs

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 739-764

  Zhang, Xuan ^a   Shapiro, Alexander ^a   Stenby, Erling H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Pseudofunctions; Two phase flow; Upscaling; Viscous dominant regime; Waterflooding

Indexed keywords

1-D MODELS; 1-D SIMULATION; 2D SIMULATIONS; BASIC APPLICATION; CAPILLARY FORCE; CROSS FLOWS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE ALGORITHMS; FLOW FUNCTION; FRACTIONAL FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HIGH ANISOTROPY; IMMISCIBLE FLOW; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID; LOG-NORMAL; MASS CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; MOBILITY RATIOS; NUMBER OF LAYERS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL; PERMEABILITY DISTRIBUTION; PISTON-LIKE DISPLACEMENT; POROUS MEDIA; PSEUDOFUNCTIONS; QUASI-LINEAR; RECOVERY CURVES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SATURATION PROFILES; SELF-SIMILARITIES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL METHODS; STRATIFIED RESERVOIRS; UPSCALING; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VISCOUS DOMINANT REGIME; WATERFLOODING;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIESEL ENGINES; FUNCTIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW; WELL FLOODING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; RESERVOIR FLOODING; TWO PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 79953029381     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9713-1     Document Type: Article

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