Incorporation of global effects in two-phase upscaling for modeling flow and transport with full-tensor anisotropy

ECMOR 2010 - 12th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chen, Y ^a   Li, Y ^b  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; POTENTIAL FLOW; TENSORS;

COARSE MODELS; CROSS FLOWS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLOW EFFECTS; GLOBAL EFFECTS; MULTIPHASE FLOW FUNCTIONS; PERMEABILITY FIELDS; TIME DEPENDENT;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 85088719918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3997/2214-4609.20144920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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