Geologic heterogeneity representation using high-order spatial cumulants for subsurface flow and transport simulations

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mustapha, Hussein ^a,b   Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos ^a   Chatterjee, Snehamoy ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUMULANTS; FLUVIAL RESERVOIRS; GAUSSIANS; GEOLOGIC HETEROGENEITY; GEOLOGICAL HETEROGENEITIES; HIGH-K MATERIALS; HIGH-ORDER; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; REFERENCE IMAGE; SEQUENTIAL GAUSSIAN SIMULATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION ALGORITHMS; STRONGLY CONNECTED; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALGORITHM; FILTER; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; RESERVOIR; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052305881     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009515     Document Type: Article

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