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ProfessorDarrenCrowdy

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Professor in Applied Mathematics
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 8587d.crowdy Website

 
 
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735Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Nelson:2018:10.1016/j.petrol.2018.03.006,
author = {Nelson, R and Zuo, L and Weijermars, R and Crowdy, DG},
doi = {10.1016/j.petrol.2018.03.006},
journal = {Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering},
pages = {1018--1041},
title = {Applying improved analytical methods for modelling flood displacement fronts in bounded reservoirs (Quitman field, east Texas)},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2018.03.006},
volume = {166},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We apply an improved potential flow model based on conformal mapping to study the sweep pattern of waterfloods in bounded reservoirs. Solutions for streamlines and flood advancement obtained with the new model are validated using an independent but more intricate numerical streamline simulation method. Subsequently, the use of the benchmarked model is demonstrated in a review of the flow patterns in the Quitman field, a tabular reservoir comprising an 18ft thick payzone of Harris sand interfingering with shales of the Eagle Ford formation. The reservoir is bound by impervious faults modelled by the method of images in earlier studies of the 1970's. In the present study, Riemann's mapping theorem in combination with the Schottky-Klein prime function is applied to find complex potentials that describe the flow in the bounded reservoir. Such an approach can model waterflooding in marginal fields like the Quitman oil field more accurately than previous potential flow methods and can visualize the sweep pattern and compute time-of-flight contours in a simpler and faster fashion than numerical streamline simulators.
AU  - Nelson,R
AU  - Zuo,L
AU  - Weijermars,R
AU  - Crowdy,DG
DO  - 10.1016/j.petrol.2018.03.006
EP  - 1041
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 1873-4715
SP  - 1018
TI  - Applying improved analytical methods for modelling flood displacement fronts in bounded reservoirs (Quitman field, east Texas)
T2  - Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2018.03.006
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/57822
VL  - 166
ER  -
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