Investigation of the sampling performance of ensemble-based methods with a simple reservoir model

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 325-350

  Emerick, Alexandre A ^a   Reynolds, Albert C ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman filter; Ensemble smoother; History matching; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Randomized maximum likelihood; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; KALMAN FILTER; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874950917     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-012-9333-z     Document Type: Article

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