Modeling of subgrid effects in coarse-scale simulations of transport in heterogeneous porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2031-2041

  Efendiev, Y ^a   Durlofsky, L J ^b,c   Lee, S H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; SUBGRID EFFECT;

FLOW MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM;

VELOCITY;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; FLUCTUATING COMPONENTS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; MODERATE PERMEABILITY; SATURATION EQUATIONS; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL DIRECTION;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 0033866407     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900141     Document Type: Article

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