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US 9,429,679 B2Granted
Systems and methods for reservoir simulation
AssigneeLandmark Graphics Corporation
InventorJohn Edwin Killough
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Abstract
Systems and methods for structured and unstructured reservoir simulation using parallel processing on GPU clusters to balance the computational load.
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A method for reservoir simulation, which comprises:
- distributing new fluid pressures and compositions determined for the reservoir to one or more GPUs wherein the new fluid pressures and compositions are distributed to each GPU with grid cells that are nearest multi-phase grid cells or source and sink terms;
- performing a multi-phase flash calculation on each GPU that was distributed new fluid pressures and compositions with an unstable phase;
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- performing a reservoir simulation using a result for each multi-phase flash calculation.
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A non-transitory program carrier device tangibly carrying computer executable instructions for reservoir simulation, the instructions being executable to implement:
- distributing new fluid pressures and compositions determined for the reservoir to one or more GPUs wherein the new fluid pressures and compositions are distributed to each GPU with grid cells that are nearest multi-phase grid cells or source and sink terms;
- performing a multi-phase flash calculation on each GPU that was distributed new fluid pressures and compositions with an unstable phase;
- and
- performing a reservoir simulation using a result for each multi-phase flash calculation.
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