Adjoint formulation and constraint handling for gradient-based optimization of compositional reservoir flow

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 117-137

  Kourounis, Drosos ^a,c   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a   Jansen, Jan Dirk ^b   Aziz, Khalid ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adjoint formulation; Automatic differentiation; Compositional reservoir simulation; Continuous adjoint; Discrete adjoint; General constraints; Gradient based optimization; Nonlinear constraints; Production optimization; Recovery optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901299365     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-013-9385-8     Document Type: Article

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