Petroleum Reservoir Simulation. The Engineering Approach / Моделирование нефтяных резервуаров. Инженерный подход

In this book the basics of reservoir simulation are presented through the modeling of single-phase fluid flow and multiphase flow in petroleum reservoirs using the engineering approach. This text is written for senior-level BSc students and first-yearMSc students studying petroleum engineering. The aim of this book is to restore engineering and physics sense to the subject. In this way the misleading impact of excess mathematical glitter, which has dominated reservoir simulation books in the past, is challenged. The engineering approach, used in this book, uses mathematics extensively, but it injects engineering meaning to differential equations and to boundary conditions used in reservoir simulation. It does not need to deal with differential equations as a means for modeling, and it interprets boundary conditions as fictitious wells that transfer fluids across reservoir boundaries. The contents of the book can be taught in two consecutive courses. The first undergraduate senior-level course includes the use of block-centered grid in rectangular coordinates in single-phase flow simulation. Thematerial ismainly included in Chapters 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9. The second graduate-level course deals with block-centered grid in radial-cylindrical coordinates, point-distributed grid in both rectangular and radial-cylindrical coordinates, and the simulation of multiphase flow in petroleum reservoirs. The material is covered in Chapters 5, 8, 10, and 11 in addition to specific sections in Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 (Sections 2.7, 4.5, 5.5, 6.2.2, 7.3.2, and 7.3.3).