Simulation 106

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In the flow equations used in reservoir simulation, porosity appears as one of the

parameters that scales the volume of fluids present in the reservoir at any time. During
production, this volume is depleted, and reservoir pressure drops. The higher the reservoirs
porosity, the less this pressure decline will be over time. The special case in which porosity
does not appear in the flow equation is the single-phase incompressible flow system. As we
will discuss later, in such a flow system, there is neither accumulation nor depletion, and so
porosity vanishes. In the other extreme, there are reservoirs in which porosity changes with
pressure, and so appears in the equation as a function of pressure rather than as a constant
value.

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