... change and anisotropic permeability variation in the sandy shale requires conducting coupled simulation of geomechanics and thermal reservoir flow. Numerical modeling of the coupled processes is historically carried out in the areas of geomechanics modeling and the reservoir simulation. Gutierrez...

... the production performance for coalbed methane wells. Various programs are now commercially available to model production performance for CBM wells, including reservoir simulation, semi-analytic, and empirical approaches. Programs differ in their input data, description of the physical problem, and calculation...

... simulation can take days. Due to this drawback in the last years, techniques such as Least Squared, Thin Plane Spline, Kriging and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been used as proxies to reservoir simulators. This article shows the results of the research developed with relation to the application...

... Abstract This paper presents a discussion on the development of a coupled geomechanics-thermal reservoir simulator using finite element method (FEM). The Galerkin's least square (GLS) technique is employed to discretize the saturation equation in order to stabilize the solutions. Unlike...

... Abstract The Method of Characteristics was proposed as a fast method of reservoir simulation many years ago. When gravitational effects are absent, the method results in a reservoir simulation technique identical to that of currently popular streamline models. However, the characteristic...

... of a genetic algorithm optimization scheme to control a commercially available thermal reservoir simulator to optimize the steam injection strategy to reduce the cumulative oil to steam ratio (cSOR). The reservoir description is typical of that from Athabasca reservoirs. The results show...

... Abstract A prototype reservoir simulator is described which combines three new simulation technologies to create a simulator of increased speed, accuracy, and versatility. These new technologies are: New finite difference equations for the determination of reservoir pressures...