Front tracking for petroleum reservoir simulation

Conference · Mon Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1983 · Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5362530

Glimm, J; Lindquist, B; McBryan, O A; Plohr, B; Yaniv, S

The front tracking method gives high quality solutions for problems with important discontinuities. The method has been applied to several model problems in reservoir simulation. Results are given for quarter 5-spot studies in an areal reservoir and the water coning problem in a vertical cylindrical section surrounding a production well. Both problems were treated as incompressible flow in the absence of capillary pressure. We have studied miscible and immiscible displacement for frontal mobility ratios of 1 and 5. Validation studies include mesh refinement, grid orientation and orthogonal coordinate changes.

• Research Organization: Courant Inst.
• OSTI ID: 5362530
• Report Number(s): CONF-831190-
• Journal Information: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States), Journal Name: Soc. Pet. Eng. AIME, Pap.; (United States) Vol. SPE-11238; ISSN SEAPA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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