Mobility Weighting in Numerical Reservoir Simulation

Numerical Simulation of Reservoir Stimulation - a Variational Approach

We present recent results on the modeling and numerical simulation of reservoir stimulation in Hot Dry Rocks. Our approach is based on a mechanistically faithful yet mathematically sound model, generalizing Griffith's idea of competition between bulk and surface energies. At each time increment, the fracture and displacement configuration of a reservoir is sought as the minimizer of a global en...

Reservoir Simulation

Solving Reservoir Simulation Equations

Reservoir simulation is a necessary tool for making decisions. It is through numerical simulation that one can obtain knowledge pertaining to the processes occurring in the interior of an oil reservoir and hence, to enable an analysis of the various recovery strategies in order to guarantee optimal exploitation. History matching, optimization, and what-if scenarios require the simulation of lar...

Object Oriented Programming Techniques and Fac Method in Numerical Reservoir Simulation

Flexible gridding has the potential of increasing the accuracy in numerical simulation of ow through hydrocarbon reservoirs within limitations in computing time and memory space. This paper is devoted to the description of a computational algorithm for two-phase immiscible, incompressible ows in an adaptive composite grid. An IMPES approach is applied. The pressure equation is discretized on lo...

Application of M3GM in a Petroleum Reservoir Simulation

Reservoir formations exhibit a wide range of heterogeneity from micro to macro scales. A simulation that involves all of these data is highly time consuming or almost impossible; hence, a new method is needed to meet the computational cost. Moreover, the deformations of the reservoir are important not only to protect the uppermost equipment but also to simulate fluid pattern and petroleum produ...