An improved numerical simulator for different types of flows in porous media

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-362

  Wang, Hong ^a   Liang, Dong ^a,b,e   Ewing, Richard E ^c   Lyons, Stephen L ^d   Qin, Guan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advection reaction equations; Characteristic methods; Error estimates; Eulerian Lagrangian methods; The modified method of characteristics; The modified method of characteristics with adjusted advection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037406586     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.10045     Document Type: Article

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