Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiscale finite volume method for reservoir simulation
- Patent Title (中): 油藏模拟的多尺度有限体积法
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Application No.: US12912958Application Date: 2010-10-27
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Publication No.: US08650016B2Publication Date: 2014-02-11
- Inventor: Ivan Fabrizio Lunati , Manav Tyagi , Seong H. Lee
- Applicant: Ivan Fabrizio Lunati , Manav Tyagi , Seong H. Lee
- Applicant Address: US CA San Ramon
- Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
- Current Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Ramon
- Agent Carlos Hanze; Tiffany E. Weksberg
- Main IPC: G06F7/60
- IPC: G06F7/60 ; G06F17/10 ; G06G7/48 ; G06G7/50

Abstract:
A Multiscale Finite Volume (MSFV) method is provided to efficiently solve large heterogeneous problems; it is usually employed for pressure equations and delivers conservative flux fields to be used in transport problems. It relies on the hypothesis that the fine-scale problem can be described by a set of local solutions coupled by a conservative coarse-scale problem. In numerically challenging cases, a more accurate localization approximation is used to obtain a good approximation of the fine-scale solution. According to an embodiment, a method is provided to iteratively improve the boundary conditions of the local problems, and is responsive to the data structure of the underlying MSFV method and employs a Krylov-subspace projection method to obtain an unconditionally stable scheme and accelerate convergence. In one embodiment the MSFV operator is used. Alternately, the MSFV operator is combined with an operator derived from the problem solved to construct the conservative flux field.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110098998A1 MULTISCALE FINITE VOLUME METHOD FOR RESERVOIR SIMULATION Public/Granted day:2011-04-28
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