Capturing Geological Realism in Stochastic Simulations of Rock Systems with Markov Statistics and Simulated Annealing

Simulated annealing is a numerical algorithm that can be used to impose statistical structures on numerical grids representing heterogeneous rock or sediment. In this paper, we use the flexibility of simulated annealing to generate grids with Markov statistical structures. Our purpose is to transmit the rich geological information captured in Markov statistics into stochastic grids while maintaining the flexibility of annealing to honor field …