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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Geological Models and Grids
- Part II Single-Phase Flow
- Part III Multiphase Flow
- Part IV Reservoir Engineering Workflows
- 13 Flow Diagnostics
- 14 Grid Coarsening
- 15 Upscaling Petrophysical Properties
- Appendix The MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
- References
- Index
- Index
14 - Grid Coarsening
from Part IV - Reservoir Engineering Workflows
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Geological Models and Grids
- Part II Single-Phase Flow
- Part III Multiphase Flow
- Part IV Reservoir Engineering Workflows
- 13 Flow Diagnostics
- 14 Grid Coarsening
- 15 Upscaling Petrophysical Properties
- Appendix The MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
- References
- Index
- Index
Summary
Generating a coarser volumetric description of the reservoir rock is a common task in reservoir engineering. This chapter discusses how to partition a fine grid model into a smaller set of coarse blocks. After the partition, the coarse blocks will each consist of a finite collection of cells from the underlying fine model. Through a series of examples, we demonstrate a variety of different partition methods. Whereas the simplest methods only utilize the geometry or topology of the grid, the more advanced methods can compute partitions that adapt to petrophysical properties, fluid contacts, flow fields, near-well regions, or underlying geological properties like depositional environments, flow units, rock types, etc.
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- An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU OctaveUser Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST), pp. 518 - 557Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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