Getting Started


System Requirements

The Toolbox requires MATLAB® edition 7.4 (R2006a) or later. Some features are also supported in earlier versions of MATLAB®.

Preliminaries

Using the toolbox requires prepending a number of directories to the MATLAB® search path. The startup script within the main toolbox directory handles the necessary path modifications.

Starting MATLAB® in the main Toolbox directory will automatically run startup. Otherwise, you will need to invoke this particular script manually—either by means of the run command or by navigating to the main toolbox directory and typing startup in the Command Window.

Demos

The best place to start is by watching our demos for an overview of toolbox features. We recommend that you start with the Basic Reservoir Tutorial Demo. This demonstration describes how to set up and simulate a simple reservoir model.

You can also look at the source code for this demo in the Editor, or run the demo step by step in the Command Window.

Help

At present the only help provided with the Reservoir Simulation Toolbox is M-file help for each function. This works as follows: If you need to know more about a specific function called functionname, type the in the Command Window:

help functionname

This displays the M-file help, which is a brief description and the syntax for functionname, in the Command Window. To see how this looks for the grid function cartGrid press here.