Overview
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Myron Bartlett Allen
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Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
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Grace Alda Behie
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Dynamics Reservoir Systems Itd., Calgary, Canada
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John Arthur Trangenstein
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Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Livermore, USA
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Back Matter
Pages 308-308
About this book
The past decade has seen remarkable growth in research related to petroleum reseIVoir simulation. This growth reflects several developments, not the least of which is the increased interest in oil recovery technologies requiring sophisticated engineer ing. Augmenting this interest has been the broader availability of supercomputers capable of handling the tremendous computational demands of a typical reseIVoir simulator. The field of reseIVoir simulation incorporates several major facets of applied mathematics. First, in view of the varieyt and complexity of the processes encoun tered, it is imperative that the modeler adopt a systematic approach to establishing the equations governing reseIVoir flows. Second, the mathematical structure of these flow equations needs to be carefully analyzed in order to develop appropriate and efficient numerical methods for their solution. Third, since some aspects of the discretized flow equations are typically stiff, one must develop efficient schemes for solving large sparse systems of linear equations. This monograph has three parts, each devoted to one of these three aspects of reseIVoir modeling. The text grew out of a set of lectures presented by the authors in the autumn of 1986 at the IBM Scientific Center in Bergen, Norway. We feel that it is only appropriate to caution the reader that many of the ideas that we present in this monograph do not reflect standard approaches in petroleum reseIVoir simulation. In fact, our aim is to outline promising new ways of attacking reseIVoir simulation prob lems, rather than to compile another textbook for the mainstream.
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
Myron Bartlett Allen
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Dynamics Reservoir Systems Itd., Calgary, Canada
Grace Alda Behie
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Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Livermore, USA
John Arthur Trangenstein
