Multilevel field-development optimization using a sequence of upscaled models

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium 2015

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 163-182

  Aliyev, Elnur ^a   Durlofsky, Louis J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

FIELD DEVELOPMENT; FINE-SCALE SIMULATION; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; MESH ADAPTIVE DIRECT SEARCH; MULTILEVEL OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 84939442983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/173198-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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