A method producing full field radial grid includes both aerial and
vertical gridding to divide a reservoir structure into simulation grid
cells. The aerial gridding is performed by 1) specifying a reservoir
boundary (including faults) and well locations; 2) distributing a set of
concentric circles around each well location; 3) determining the
circle-circle and circle-boundary intersection locations of these
circles; 4) forming the aerial grid by selecting circles, arc segments of
intersecting circles and radial lines which connect the ends of these arc
segments to the corresponding well center; 5) and forming additional grid
lines by selecting the connecting lines of two wells if their circles
intersect, adding additional radial lines to certain wells, and
connecting end points of certain selected arc segments. The vertical
gridding is performed by casting the aerial grid vertically downwardly
through all the layers defined in the reservoir structure.