Efficient and accurate global sensitivity analysis for reservoir simulations by use of the probabilistic collocation method

SPE Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 621-635

  Dai, Cheng ^a   Li, Heng ^a   Zhang, Dongxiao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARBITRARY DISTRIBUTION; FIELD CHARACTERIZATION; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; LOCAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS (MCS); POLYNOMIAL CHAOS EXPANSION; PROBABILISTIC COLLOCATION METHOD; STATISTICAL SENSITIVITY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937193491     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/167609-PA     Document Type: Article

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