Graduate Catalog

PEEG 631 Petroleum Reservoir Simulation

This is a first formal course in reservoir simulation. Rudiments of the numerical treatment of fluid flow in porous media are covered. Specific topics covered include conservation of mass, Darcy’s Law, permeability tensor, gridding and grid orientation effects, mathematical formulation of flow and transport equations, Finite Difference solution schemes, numerical dispersion, multiphase flow, relative permeability, and capillary pressure.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall Spring