Multiblock methods for coupled flow-transport and compositional flow through porous media - Applications to the simulation of transport of reactive species and carbon sequestration

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 930-951

  Thomas, S G ^a,b   Wheeler, M F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENHANCED RECOVERY; GLOBAL WARMING; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; CONTINUOUS APPROXIMATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; MULTISCALE APPLICATIONS; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION; SPECIES TRANSPORT MODELS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79957889927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/141824-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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