Distributed parameter and state estimation in petroleum reservoirs

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-77

  Oliver, Dean S ^a   Zhang, Yanfen ^c   Phale, Hemant A ^b   Chen, Yan ^c  

^a Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained EnKF; Data assimilation; History matching; Petroleum reservoir; Regularization of Kalman gain

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED ENKF; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER; FINAL STATE; HIGH WATER; HISTORY MATCHING; INITIAL STATE; KEY ELEMENTS; LOW WATER; MODEL PARAMETERS; NUMBER OF STATE; REGULARIZATION OF KALMAN GAIN; STATE VARIABLES; STATIC EQUILIBRIUM;

DATA PROCESSING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; STATE ESTIMATION;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 79954969752     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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