A negative-flash tie-simplex approach for multiphase reservoir simulation

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 966-982

  Iranshahr, Alireza ^a   Voskov, Denis ^a   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ENHANCED RECOVERY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; MIXTURES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; TEMPERATURE;

COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR; COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES; DISPLACEMENT PROCESS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; FUNCTION OF PRESSURE; HETEROGENEOUS FORMATION; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC PHASE BEHAVIORS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 79957893755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/141896-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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