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Constant Pressure Boundary
The constant pressure boundary is sometimes used to match a late-time drop in the derivative data, as shown below. Note that the changes in the derivative are due to the short initial production times and the derivative calculation algorithm (more information is available in the training video called Deconvolution). The three marked PBU tests can be seen in...How much rate history to use in pressure transient analysis
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