Comparison of iterative methods for computing the pressure field in a dynamic network model

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-301

  Mogensen, Kristian ^a   Stenby, Erling ^a   Banerjee, Srilekha ^b   Barker, Vincent A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Dynamic network models; Iterative methods

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; DYNAMIC NETWORK MODELS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE ITPACK;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DYNAMIC MODELING; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; NETWORK MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE FIELD;

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE FIELD;

EID: 0032703071     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006642203767     Document Type: Article

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