A multi-resolution workflow to generate high-resolution models constrained to dynamic data

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 545-563

  Scheidt, Céline ^a   Caers, Jef ^a   Chen, Yuguang ^b   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance based techniques; Error modeling; History matching; Kernel KL expansion; Uncertainty quantification; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPSCALING;

EID: 79957875665     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-011-9223-9     Document Type: Article

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