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Simultaneous upscaling of two properties of reservoirs in one dimension using adaptive bandwidth in kernel function method
Received date: 2018-12-08
Revised date: 2019-04-19
Online published: 2019-08-24
Upscaling of primary geological models with huge cells, especially in porous media, is the first step in fluid flow simulation. Numerical methods are often used to solve the models. The upscaling method must preserve the important properties of the spatial distribution of the reservoir properties. An grid upscaling method based on adaptive bandwidth in kernel function is proposed according to the spatial distribution of property. This type of upscaling reduces the number of cells, while preserves the main heterogeneity features of the original fine model. The key point of the paper is upscaling two reservoir properties simultaneously. For each reservoir feature, the amount of bandwidth or optimal threshold is calculated and the results of the upscaling are obtained. Then two approaches are used to upscaling two properties simultaneously based on maximum bandwidth and minimum bandwidth. In fact, we now have a finalized upscaled model for both reservoir properties for each approach in which not only the number of their cells, but also the locations of the cells are equal. The upscaling error of the minimum bandwidth approach is less than that of the maximum bandwidth approach.
Reza Azad MOHAMMAD , Kamkar Rouhani ABOLGHASEM , Tokhmechi BEHZAD , Arashi MOHAMMAD , Baratnezhad EHSAN . Simultaneous upscaling of two properties of reservoirs in one dimension using adaptive bandwidth in kernel function method[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2019 , 46(4) : 746 -752 . DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(19)60232-6
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