An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST)

An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave provides a self-contained introduction to the simulation of flow and transport in porous media, written by a developer of numerical methods. The reader will learn how to implement reservoir simulation models and computational algorithms in a robust and efficient manner. The book contains a large number of numerical examples, all fully equipped with online code and data, allowing the reader to reproduce results, and use them as a starting point for their own work. All of the examples in the book are based on the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST), an open-source toolbox popular in both academic institutions and the petroleum industry. The book can also be seen as a user guide to the MRST software. The book was written for researchers, professionals and advanced students using reservoir simulation methods.

MATLAB code is used throughout the book. The MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox, which uses MATLAB, can also be downloaded from the companion site.

Key Features

• Provides a self-contained introduction to reservoir simulation, even to those without a background in petroleum engineering
• Discusses in detail how to implement the various parts that make up a reservoir simulator, allowing the reader to create their own simulator from scratch or by building on to existing community code
• The book, also published as Open Access, acts as a user guide to a widely used open-source community code (MRST)