The numerical simulation of multiphase flow through a porous medium and its application to reservoir engineering

DOI10.1016/0307-904X(81)90039-1zbMath0468.76099MaRDI QIDQ1156643

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

space discretizationtime-stepping methodspetroleum reservoir simulationtwo-phase immiscible flowoil and gas fieldstechnique to five-spot

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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Solution of two-phase flow problems in porous media via an alternating- direction finite element method ⋮ A discrete model for the recovery of oil from a reservoir

Cites Work

• A starting algorithm for the numerical simulation of two‐phase flow problems
• A new class of highly-stable methods:A 0-stable methods
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