Abstract
The petroleum industry has well-established partial differential equation models for multi-phase fluid flow through porous media, but the use of control-theoretic methods for optimization of petroleum recovery is fairly new. The approaches discussed in this survey could lead to a significant payoff to the petroleum industry through improved efficiency in petroleum recovery operations. There is also significant potential for the application of these methods in groundwater remediation.
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Ewing, R.E., Pilant, M.S., Wade, J.G., Watson, A.T. (1995). Identification and Control Problems in Petroleum and Groundwater Modeling. In: Lasiecka, I., Morton, B. (eds) Control Problems in Industry. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2580-5_6
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