Reservoir Characterisation & Simulation - PTRL3002
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
School: School of Petroleum Engineering
Course Outline: http://www.petrol.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite:PTRL3001,GEOS3321
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Numerical Reservoir Simulation: Introduction and overview: Reservoir simulation and management. Derivation of general reservoir flow equations. Reduction to the black oil model. Discrete flow equations for single-phase flow: finite difference approximation. Discretization of the black oil equations. Truncation errors and stability. Tranmissibilities, upstream weighing, implicit and explicit treatment of transmissibilities. Numerical dispersion and grid-orientation effects. Model and grid selection. Model initialization. Treatment of wells in simulators. Pseudo-functions. History matching. Planning and executing a reservoir simulation study.