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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2009
Hadi Hajibeygi, Zurich, CH;
Giuseppe Bonfigli, St. Gallen, CH;
Marc Andre Hesse, Austin, TX (US);
Patrick Jenny, Weesen, CH;
Hadi Hajibeygi, Zurich, CH;
Giuseppe Bonfigli, St. Gallen, CH;
Marc Andre Hesse, Austin, TX (US);
Patrick Jenny, Weesen, CH;
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
ETH Zurich, Zurich, CH;
Abstract
Computer-implemented iterative multi-scale methods and systems are provided for handling simulation of complex, highly anisotropic, heterogeneous domains. A system and method can be configured to achieve simulation of structures where accurate localization assumptions do not exist. The iterative system and method smoothes the solution field by applying line relaxation in all spatial directions. The smoother is unconditionally stable and leads to sets of tri-diagonal linear systems that can be solved efficiently, such as by the Thomas algorithm. Furthermore, the iterative smoothing procedure, for the improvement of the localization assumptions, does not need to be applied in every time step of the computation.