Quantitative Methods in Reservoir Engineering

Wilson C. Chin, PhD MIT, MSc Caltech, fluid mechanics, physics, applied math and numerical methods, has published twenty-five research books with John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier; more than 100 papers and 50 patents; and won 5 awards with the US Dept of Energy. He founded Stratamagnetic Software, LLC in 1997, an international company engaged in multiple scientific disciplines.

1. Motivating Ideas and Governing Equations2. Fracture Flow Analysis3. Flows past Shaly Bodies4. Streamline Tracing and Complex Variables5. Flows in Complicated Geometries6. Radial Flow Analysis7. Finite Difference Methods for Planar Flows8. Curvilinear Coordinates and Numerical Grid Generation9. Steady-State Reservoir Applications10. Transient Compressible Flows: Numerical Well Test Simulation11. Effective Properties in Single and Multiphase Flows12. Modeling Stochastic heterogeneities13. Real and Artificial Viscosity14. Borehole Flow Invasion, Lost Circulation, and Time Lapse Logging15. Horizontal, Deviated, and Modern Multilateral Well Analysis16. Fluid Mechanics of Invasion17. Static and Dynamic Filtration18. Formation Tester Applications19. Analytical Methods for Time Lapse Well Logging Analysis20. Complex Invasion Problems: Numerical Modeling 21. Forward and Inverse Multiphase Flow Modeling22. Formation Testing23. Reservoir Flow Simulation for Modern Well Systems