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14 - Grid Coarsening

from Part IV - Reservoir Engineering Workflows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2019

Knut-Andreas Lie
Affiliation:
SINTEF, Norway
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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 Octave
User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST)
, pp. 518 - 557
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019
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  • Grid Coarsening
  • Knut-Andreas Lie
  • Book: An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave
  • Online publication: 22 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591416.019
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  • Grid Coarsening
  • Knut-Andreas Lie
  • Book: An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave
  • Online publication: 22 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591416.019
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  • Grid Coarsening
  • Knut-Andreas Lie
  • Book: An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave
  • Online publication: 22 July 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108591416.019
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