SIM Reservoir - Reduce simulation time

Increasing the model size of your simulation will increase the accuracy of the simulation but also increase the time spent to run and analyze the simulation. In the past, two main obstacles were present; increased simulation run-time and inadequate solutions to properly and interactively visualize and post-process these large simulation runs. SIM Reservoir solves the second obstacle, through the use of level of detail algorithms and optimized caching, ensuring you that working on large datasets does not decrease the performance. Since analyzing and post-processing large datasets is no longer an issue, it may be worthwhile to increase the size of the model and get a more accurate picture of your reservoirs physics and dynamics. Once a simulation has been performed intelligent color mapping will help you identify areas with large activity and good candidates for local grid refinement (LGR). Filtering out homogenous areas will enable you to upscale the simulation grid based on reservoir characteristics instead of arbitrary field-wide geometric upscaling. Once the LGRs and nested LGRs have been defined, subsequent simulations will run faster and provide more accurate results.

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