Efficient 2-phase upscaling in 2D

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Asia Pacific Improved Oil Recovery Conference 2001, APIORC 2001

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Virnovsky, G A ^a   Lohne, A ^a  

^a RF Rogaland Research   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; EFFECTIVE RELATIVE PERMEABILITIES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SOLUTION; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SELF-CONSISTENT APPROACH; SMALL-SCALE HETEROGENEITY;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85085408110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/72113-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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