2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Multiscale Methods and Streamline Simulation for Rapid Reservoir Performance Prediction
Authors : J.E. Aarnes, V. Kippe, K.-A. Lie
Published in: Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2004
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We introduce a novel multiscale approach for reservoir simulation as an alternative to industry-standard upscaling methods. In our approach, reservoir pressure and total velocity is computed separately from the fluid transport. Pressure is computed on a coarse grid using a multiscale mixed-finite element method that gives a mass-conserving velocities on a fine subgrid. The fluid transport is computed using streamlines on the underlying fine geogrid.