Complementary finite element methods applied to the numerical homogenization of 3D absolute permeability

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-41

  Trykozko, Anna ^a,b   Zijl, Wouter ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absolute permeability; Complementarity; Conformal nodal elements; Darcy's law; Homogenization; Mixed hybrid elements

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TENSORS;

NUMERICAL HOMOGENIZATION;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

GROUND WATER;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMEABILITY;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; RESERVOIR; WATER PERMEABILITY;

EID: 0036153440     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.462     Document Type: Article

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