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Numerical Analysis of Reservoir Fluid Flow

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Multiphase Flow in Porous Media

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In this chapter we shall consider several model problems of varying complexity in petroleum reservoir fluid flow. Although the physical assumptions behind these models are very restrictive, these models contain many qualitative aspects in common with more realistic fluid models. As a result, an understanding of the simple models will be essential to our work in the following chapters.

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Trangenstein, J.A. (1988). Numerical Analysis of Reservoir Fluid Flow. In: Multiphase Flow in Porous Media. Lecture Notes in Engineering, vol 34. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9598-0_2

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