Uncertainty quantification in history matching of channelized reservoirs using Markov Chain level set approaches

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 913-929

  Xie, Jiang ^a   Efendiev, Yalchin ^a   Datta Gupta, Akhil ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETERIZATION; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; TRANSPIRATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

INDICATOR FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RANDOM VELOCITY FIELDS; SIGNED DISTANCE FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

EID: 79957913856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/141811-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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