Constructing Three-Phase Capillary Pressure Functions by Parameter Matching Using a Modified Ensemble Kalman Filter

Constructing Three-Phase Capillary Pressure Functions by Parameter Matching Using a Modified Ensemble Kalman Filter

Year:    2009

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 6 (2009), Iss. 1 : pp. 24–48

Abstract

Usually extended two-phase capillary pressures are used in three-phase simulations, because three-phase capillary pressures are not possible or hard to measure. In this work three-phase capillary pressure surfaces are created by at pore network model. The input parameters to this network model are found by matching two-phase capillary pressure curves. This matching is done with a slightly modified EnKF routine. Tables with three-phase capillary pressures are created and used as input to flow simulations.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2009-CiCP-7670

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 6 (2009), Iss. 1 : pp. 24–48

Published online:    2009-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    25

Keywords:    Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) three-phase porous media flow capillary pressure parameter matching.