A study of conceptual model uncertainty in large-scale CO2 storage simulation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Li, Shuiquan ^a   Zhang, Ye ^a   Zhang, Xu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEEP SALINE AQUIFERS; DRIVING FORCES; FLUID PRESSURES; FORMATION FLUIDS; FORMATION MODEL; GRAVITY FORCES; GRID CELLS; HETEROGENEITY RESOLUTION; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; LAYERED MODEL; MOBILE GAS; MODEL PREDICTION; MULTIPLE MATERIALS; MULTISCALES; OPTIMAL COMPLEXITY; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PLUME SHAPES; RESERVOIR MODELS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; TEMPORAL SCALE; UPSCALING; VISCOUS FORCES; WYOMING;

AQUIFERS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FLUIDS; FORECASTING; GRAVITATION; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; RATING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER INJECTION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AQUIFER; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FLUID PRESSURE; GAS FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; PERMEABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 79958064401     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009707     Document Type: Article

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