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AAPG Memoir 71 : Reservoir Characterization-Recent Advances
Edited by Richard A. Schatzinger and John F. Jordan
Copyright 1999 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.
Memoir 71, Chapter 20: An Efficient Permeability Scaling-Up Technique Applied to Discretized Flow Equations , by Denise Urgelli and Yu Ding , Pages 293 - 304

Chapter 20
An Efficient Permeability Scaling-Up Technique Applied to Discretized Flow Equations

Denise Urgelli
Yu Ding
Institut Francais du Petrole
Rueil Malmaison, France


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Grid-block permeability scaling-up for numerical reservoir simulations has been discussed for a long time in the literature. It is now recognized that a full permeability tensor is needed to get an accurate reservoir description at large scale; however, two major difficulties are encountered: (1) grid-block permeability cannot be properly defined because it depends on boundary conditions and (2) discretization of flow equations with a full permeability tensor is not straightforward, and little work has been done on this subject.

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