| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7369973 |
Method and system for representing reservoir systems |
May 6, 2008 |
| The disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method of representing fluid flow in a physical fluid reservoir. The method includes generating a mesh representation of the physical fluid reservoir having a plurality of mesh elements. Each of the plurality of mesh elements is re |
| 7260508 |
Method and system for high-resolution modeling of a well bore in a hydrocarbon reservoir |
August 21, 2007 |
| A method and system are disclosed for high-resolution modeling of a well bore in a reservoir. An embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of constructing a first unstructured mesh having a plurality of n-dimensional simplices corresponding to a first modeled system (space |
| 7149671 |
Method and system for coordinate transformation to model radial flow near a singularity |
December 12, 2006 |
| A method and system for predicting the behavior of a physical system are disclosed. One embodiment of the method of this invention comprises the steps of creating an equation in a first coordinate system to model an aspect of the physical system; applying a coordinate transformation to |
| 7043413 |
Method for modeling an arbitrary well path in a hydrocarbon reservoir using adaptive meshing |
May 9, 2006 |
| Methods and systems for adapting an unstructured mesh to a modeled space. In one embodiment, a surface is defined in the modeled space, intersections of the surface with the elements of the mesh are determined, and new elements within the intersected elements are defined such that on |
| 7027964 |
Method and system for solving finite element models using multi-phase physics |
April 11, 2006 |
| Systems and methods for solving finite element models, wherein the matrix that governs the solution is modified by adjusting the weighting coefficients of the matrix so that the elements which lie on the diagonal of the matrix are non-negative and the elements which are off the diago |
| 7006951 |
Method for solving finite element models using time slabbing |
February 28, 2006 |
| A method for solving finite element problems in n+1 dimensions by iteratively extruding an n-dimensional finite element mesh in an n+1th dimension to form "slabs" which can be more easily solved within the entire n+1-dimensional problem. In a preferred embodiment, a three-dimensional |
| 6941255 |
Feature modeling in a finite element model |
September 6, 2005 |
| A method for simulating a physical system using finite element techniques, wherein two or more distinct models corresponding to distinct regions within the modeled system are solved, each with a corresponding evaluator. Nodes which lie on the boundaries between the models may have differ |
| 6674432 |
Method and system for modeling geological structures using an unstructured four-dimensional mesh |
January 6, 2004 |
| A method for solving space-time problems involving three-dimensional space wherein an unstructured four-dimensional finite element model is generated and solved to produce a four-dimensional solution. The four-dimensional mesh is generated from a three-dimensional mesh by extruding each |
