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The IMPES formulation
Early paper[17][18][19] presented the basis of the IMPES (implicit pressure, exp
licit saturations) formulation for the black-oil case: take all variables in the
interblock flow terms explicit, except for pressure, and eliminate all nonpress
ure variables from the linearized expressions for MiIn+1 in Eq. 1. The obvious e
xtension to any type model with any number of components was presented later,[20
] and numerous IMPES-type compositional models have been published.[13][14][15][
21]
The model Eq. 3 can be written as:
RTENOTITLE....................(5)
If all variables but pressure are explicit in the interblock flow terms, then al
l entries but those in the last column of the n n Aij (j ? i) matrix are zero (r
ecall, the n th variable in each gridblock, Pin, is pressure pi). This allows el
imination of all nonpressure variables and reduction of the vector Eq. 5 to the
scalar equation in pressure only[22]:
RTENOTITLE....................(6)