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Preface to the Second Edition

The second edition of Principles of Applied Reservoir Simulation has been
expanded to include background material on reservoir engineering. The chapters
in Part I - Reservoir Engineering Primer are intended to make the book more
accessible to people from such disciplines as geology, geophysics, and hydrology.
The material should serve as a review for petroleum engineers. Chapters in Part
II - Modeling Principles have been substantially revised and updated where
appropriate. Exercises have been added or modified to improve their usefulness.
Much of the material in the program technical supplement has been integrated
into the main body of the text because it is relevant for flow simulators in general,
and not just for the accompanying software.
The simulator WINB4D accompanying the text is a version of the original
BOAST4D flow simulator modified for use in a Windows operating environment
with a dynamic memory management system. The dynamic memory management
system expands the range of applicability of the program. A visualization program
(3DVIEW) is included on the accompanying CD. It lets the reader obtain a 3D
perspective of the reservoir using WINB4D output.
I would like to thank my students in the undergraduate senior reservoir
engineering course at the Colorado School of Mines for their comments and
suggestions. I would also like to thank Kathy Fanchi for helping complete the
revisions to the second edition, and David Abbott for providing the original
version of 3DVIEW. Any written comments or suggestions for improving the
material are welcome.
John R. Fanchi, Ph.D.
Golden, Colorado
June 2000

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