A Review of Coupled Dynamic Well-Reservoir Simulation∗

The numerical simulation of the dynamic interaction between hydrocarbon reservoirs and wells has been an object of study for over three decades. Such a coupled approach is necessary to solve a variety of dynamic flow problems, such as pressure transient analysis (well testing) with wellbore storage, liquid loading, near-well reservoir clean-up, unstable gas lift, or the development of smart well control systems. We review various examples of coupling dynamic reservoir and well models as described in the open literature.