Two-stage upscaling of two-phase flow: From core to simulation scale

Proceedings - SPE Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery

Volumn 2004-April, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Lohne, Arild ^a   Virnovsky, George ^b   Durlofsky, Louis J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b Rogaland Research   (Norway)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS OF STATE; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

ABSOLUTE PERMEABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; EFFECTIVE RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; GEOSTATISTICAL MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; PERIODIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SCALE HETEROGENEITIES;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84942000431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2118/89422-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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