Numerical methods for flow in a porous medium with internal boundaries

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-240

  Ersland, Brit Gunn ^b   Espedal, Magne S ^a   Nybo, Roger ^b  

^a University of Bergen ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Characteristic methods; Discontinuous finite elements; Discontinuous parameters; Two phase fluid flow

Indexed keywords

FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO-PHASE FLOW;

NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 0032418159     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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