A New Differentiable Parameterization Based on Principal Component Analysis for the Low-Dimensional Representation of Complex Geological Models

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 775-813

  Vo, Hai X ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Geological modeling; Histogram transform; History matching; Inverse problem; Non Gaussian parameterization; Oil reservoir simulation; Regularization; Soft thresholding

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MAPPING; MATLAB; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOLOGICAL MODELING; HISTORY MATCHING; NON-GAUSSIAN; OIL RESERVOIR SIMULATION; REGULARIZATION; SOFT THRESHOLDING;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; FACIES; FAN DELTA; HISTOGRAM; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; INVERSE PROBLEM; MATRIX; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TRANSFORM;

EID: 84908498150     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-014-9541-2     Document Type: Article

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