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Multiscale methods and streamline simulation for rapid reservoir performance prediction

Abstract

We introduce a novel multiscale approach for reservoir simulation as an alternative to industry-standard upscaling methods. In our approach, reservoir pressure and total velocity is computed separately from the fluid transport. Pressure is computed on a coarse grid using a multiscale mixed-finite element method that gives a mass-conserving velocities on a fine subgrid. The fluid transport is computed using streamlines on the underlying fine geogrid.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Mathematics and Cybernetics

Year

2006

Publisher

Springer

Book

Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2004

ISBN

9783540280729

Page(s)

399 - 403

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