Modeling Chanel Forms Using a Boundary Representation Based on Non-uniform Rational B-Splines

Jeremy Ruiu and Guillaume Caumon and Sophie Viseur and Christophe Antoine. ( 2013 )
in: Mathematics of Planet Earth _ Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences, Berlin, pages 581-584, Springer

Abstract

In many applications (e.g. object-based simulation), parametric forms are necessary to model geological bodies. In this paper, Non-uniform Rational Basis Splines (NURBS) are used to construct parametric channel forms. The models of geobodies are generated using a small number of parameters, and hence can be easily modified. This can be done by a point and click user interactions for manual editing or by a Monte-Carlo sampling onto parameter statistical distributions for stochastic simulation applications. These channel objects may also serve as support for defining facies regions in a classical reservoir 3D grid and thus for conditioning petrophysical modeling.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{,
    author = { Ruiu, Jeremy and Caumon, Guillaume and Viseur, Sophie and Antoine, Christophe },
    editor = { Pardo-Igúzquiza, E. and Guardiola-Albert, C. and et al. },
     title = { Modeling Chanel Forms Using a Boundary Representation Based on Non-uniform Rational B-Splines },
 booktitle = { Mathematics of Planet Earth _ Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences },
    series = { Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences },
      year = { 2013 },
     pages = { 581-584 },
 publisher = { Springer },
  location = { Berlin },
       doi = { 10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_127 },
  abstract = { In many applications (e.g. object-based simulation), parametric forms are necessary to model geological bodies. In this paper, Non-uniform Rational Basis Splines (NURBS) are used to construct parametric channel forms. The models of geobodies are generated using a small number of parameters, and hence can be easily modified. This can be done by a point and click user interactions for manual editing or by a Monte-Carlo sampling onto parameter statistical distributions for stochastic simulation applications. These channel objects may also serve as support for defining facies regions in a classical reservoir 3D grid and thus for conditioning petrophysical modeling. }
}