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Reservoir simulations are literally pictures of what a reservoir of oil or gas looks, or should look, like under the surface of the earth. Beginning with an overview of classical reservoir engineering and basic reservoir simulation methods, this book then progresses through a discussion of types of flows singlephase, twophase, black oil threephase, single phase with multicomponents, compositional, and thermal. Mathematical techniques in oil recovery, volume 77 of the national science foundation. However, many of the underlying fundamental photophysical mechanisms in this material such as the perovskite transition band structure as well as the dependent relationship between the carrier properties and. His reservoir simulation software has been applied in the management and simulation of oil reservoirs in the daqing oil field, shengli oil field, tuha oil region, bohai gulf, northchina naturally fractured carbonate field, and orinoco belt, venezuela.
It can be used as a text for senior undergraduate students and firstyear graduate students in geology, petroleum engineering. Zhangxin john chens research works the university of. Gpu computing, reservoir simulation, linear solver, parallel. Numerical simulation of reservoir processes sintef. The datacollection process draws input data from all relevant disciplines. Zhangxin chen author of finite element methods and their. A number of methods and tools are used for this purpose, varying from commercial reservoir simulators to specially developed and dedicated simulators. Feb 17, 2015 once we have the governing physics, we can build the reservoir simulation model by filling up with all other detailed information, including rock properties, fluid properties, reservoir initial and boundary conditions, etc. Hui liu, bo yang and zhangxin chen hui liu, bo yang and zhangxin chen this paper studies the parallelization of the restarted gmres solver, gmres m, and the block ilu k preconditioner on gpus used in petroleum reservoir simulations.
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Research on control and management mechanism of an optical. Papers are based on a 2001 joint amsimssiam summer research conference held at mount holyoke college south. A case study in the south china sea lin li and bin tao, cnooc china panyu operating company. Login to enjoy the indias leading online book store sapnaonline discount sales on your favourite author zhangxin chen books, with free delivery.
Based on the proteus simulationchinese edition zhang xin. Abstract this paper describes the algorithms and implementation of a parallel thermal reservoir simulator designed for heavy oil simulation using distributedmemory supercomputers that can solve prohibitive problems efficiently. Society for industrial and applied mathematics, 2007. Reservoir simulation models are used by oil and gas companies in the development of new fields. Ebook zhang xin as pdf download portable document format. Zhangxin chen is foundation cmg chaired professor in the department of. Tpg4160 reservoir simulation 2017professor jon kleppe. Infrared system simulation of airborne target detection on spacebased platform.
We provide a full range of reservoir engineering and simulation tools not just for reservoir simulation but also for the gridding and upscaling of geological models, visualisation of results, assisted history matching and production uncertainty prediction. Optimizing the reservoir model of delta front sandstone using seismic to simulation workflow. Feng zhang reservoir simulation scientist computer. Zhangxin chen is the author of finite element methods and their applications 5. A schematic diagram of this process is shown in figure 1. Zhangxin chen is foundation cmg chaired professor in the department of chemical and petroleum engineering at the university of calgary, canada, and the. The subject of this book is multiphase flows in porous media and simulation. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Investigation of compositional grading in petroleum reservoirs. Gilman, page 3 of 35 practical aspects of simulation of fractur ed reservoirs j. This textbook is only one of the tools to teach the reservoir simulation techniques at the university and in post graduate courses efficiently.
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However, certain effects, such as gas evolution from oil phase, can be difficult to capture with coarsescale models. It will develop numerical techniques that are faster and have greater accuracy than are currently available. Books by zhangxin chen, zhangxin chen books online india. Chen s research will create a stateoftheart reservoir simulation toolkit that allows for multiple parallel runs, faster computation and rigorous optimization. This user guide is intended to report the status of the datacollection process. Investigation of compositional grading in petroleum reservoirs zhangxing chen university of calgary. Mathematical techniques in oil recovery cbmsnsf regional conference series in applied mathematics society for industrial and applied. Author links open overlay panel zhenjun wang jiehao huang. Chens work provides laboratory data, oil and gas production technologies, and reservoir simulation software. Efficient reservoir simulation the oil and gas industry is changing rapidly, driving a need for fast and scalable highperformance implementations of reservoir simulations.
This volume contains research papers written and edited by prominent researchers working with the mathematical and numerical treatment of fluid flow and transport in porous media. Research on removing reservoir core water sensitivity. Under the model in the broad scientific sense of the word, they understand a real or mentally created structure that reproduces or reflects the object being studied. Dynamic capacity management with general upgrading. Mathematical techniques in oil recovery by zhangxin chen online at alibris. On the other hand, high price of cluster supercomputers prevents them for being commonly used for fast simulation of such. Green lines indicate the minor faulting, red lines indicate regional faults. Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering in which computer models are used to predict the flow of fluids typically, oil, water, and gas through porous media. The hottest, most important topic to reservoir engineers is reservoir simulation. According to the study, a perchedwater table formed in the dam when the reservoir water infiltrated into the rockfill from the top of the concrete face. Demonstrating extraordinary leadership in the field of energy and environmental modeling, dr. Introduction to reservoir simulation analytical and numerical.
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Research on removing reservoir core water sensitivity using the method of ultrasoundchemical agent for enhanced oil recovery. Zhangxin chen s most popular book is finite element methods and their applications. Particular emphasis is placed upon the available data and its integration into a data set that reflects a coherent model of the reservoir. Reservoir simulation is an area of reservoir engineering that, combining physics, mathematics, and computer programming to a reservoir model allows the analysis and the prediction of the fluid behavior in the reservoir over time. A parallel thermal reservoir simulator on distributedmemory. Zhangxing john chen schulich school of engineering. Reservoir simulation is the means by which one uses a numerical model of the.
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Zhangxin chen, hui liu, song yu, ben hsieh and lei shao for parallel. Mathematical techniques in oil recovery by zhangxin chenbuy. Zhangxin john chen s research while affiliated with. Computational methods for multiphase flows in porous media. Simulating california reservoir operation using the. Shale gas reservoir rocks require the analysis of highquality seismic data, core, and log measurements and engineering data to produce an accurate reservoir characterization model. Zhangxin chen s 440 research works with 5,648 citations and 6,537 reads, including. Zhang, xin swire professor of aerospace engineering. Zhangxin chen s most popular book is finite element. Jieyang chen, qiang guan, zhao zhang, xin liang, louis vernon, allen mcpherson, lita lo, zizhong chen, patricia grubel, and james ahrens beeflow.
Buy computational methods for multiphase flows in porous media by zhangxin chen online at alibris. To resolve this problem and obtain accurate coarse simulation results, we developed the nearwell upscaling technique for threephase flow. Mathematical techniques in oil recovery cbmsnsf regional conference series in applied mathematics, 77 by zhangxin chen this book covers and expands upon material presented by the author at a cbmsnsf regional conference during a tenlecture series on multiphase flows in porous media and their simulation. Optimizing the reservoir model of delta front sandstone using. The papers are based on talks given at a 2001 joint amsimssiam summer research conference held at mount holyoke college south hadley, ma. This course is designed to give an introduction to the fundamental and practical aspects of modern reservoir simulation.
Effects of helium adsorption in carbon nanopores on apparent void volumes and excess methane adsorption isotherms. Also, models are used in developed fields where production forecasts are needed to help make investment decisions. Xin chen, chengcui zhang, shuching chen, and min chen, a latent semantic indexing based method for solving multiple instance learning problem in regionbased image retrieval, proceedings of ieee international symposium on multimedia ism 2005, pp. Elucidating the band structure and free charge carrier. Mixed precision parallel preconditioner and linear solver for.
A proposed fast roi detection algorithm which can detect facelike regions as rois is applied to obtain accurate and small roi so as to reduce the necessary coding effort of the encoder. Isbn 9780821832615 9780821832615 softcover, amer mathematical society, 2003. Reservoir simulation is a learning tool for better understanding oil and gas reservoir production. May 15, 2014 reservoir simulation role in value creation and strategic management decisions cannot be over emphasized. Their combined citations are counted only for the first article. Nearwell behavior can strongly affect reservoir simulation results. A scalable thermal reservoir simulator for giant models on parallel computers. Nov 10, 2014 mbe with emphasis on gas reservoir by parvez nophel b. Reservoir simulation includes associated papers 21606 and. Haihong wang, shulin sun, fengping mu, wanlong zhang and jiapeng ye, cgg summary the south china sea contains approximately 11 billion. This paper proposes a regionofinterest roi based h.
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