Simulation of miscible displacement in porous media by a modified Uzawa's algorithm combined with a characteristic method

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 162, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 359-368

  Yang, Daoqi ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT; OIL INDUSTRY; POROUS MEDIUM;

DISPLACEMENT; OIL INDUSTRY; POROUS MEDIUM;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; TENSORS;

UZAWA'S ALGORITHMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0009084688     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00002-4     Document Type: Article

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