Fluid discrimination based on rock physics templates

Rock physics characterization of shale reservoirs: a case study

Unconventional resources are typically very complex to model, and the production from this type of reservoirs is influenced by such complexity in their microstructure. This microstructure complexity is normally reflected in their geophysical response, and makes them more difficult to interpret. Rock physics play an important role to resolve such complexity by integrating different subsurface di...

Physics - Based Simulations for Fluid Mixtures

Physics-Based Simulations for Fluid Mixtures Dongwoon Lee Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2007 We develop a physics-based particle method to simulate various fluid mixture effects. A particle method is chosen over a grid-based method because we believe a particle method is more intuitive and better suited for handling physical and chemical inte...

Rock Physics Diagnostic for Reservoir Characterization

The Physics of Rock Failure and Earthquakes

Physical modeling of earthquake generation processes is essential to further our understanding of seismic hazard. However, the scale-dependent nature of earthquake rupture processes is further complicated by the heterogeneous nature of the crust. Despite significant advances in the understanding of earthquake generation processes, and the derivation of underlying physical laws, controversy rema...

Discrimination of time series based on kernel method

Classical methods in discrimination such as linear and quadratic do not have good efficiency in the case of nongaussian or nonlinear time series data. In nonparametric kernel discrimination in which the kernel estimators of likelihood functions are used instead of their real values has been shown to have good performance. The misclassification rate of kernel discrimination is usually less than ...