Reservoir characterization and inversion uncertainty via a family of particle swarm optimizers

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fernández Martínez, Juan Luis ^a   Mukerji, Tapan ^b   García Gonzalo, Esperanza ^a   Suman, Amit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inversion; Modeling; Optimization; Reservoir characterization

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INVERSE PROBLEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

INVERSION; LOCAL OPTIMIZATION METHODS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUMERICAL INSTABILITY; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

ALGORITHM; FORECASTING METHOD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84857498903     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0041.1     Document Type: Article

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