A dual mesh multigrid preconditioner for the efficient solution of hydrautically driven fracture problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1797-1823

  Peirce, A P ^a   Siebrits, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

BEM; Fluid driven fractures; Hydraulic fracture; Multigrid preconditioning

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS; ELASTIC MEDIA; GAUSS-SEIDEL SMOOTHERS; MULTIGRID (MG) PROCEDURE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDRAULICS;

EID: 22744436295     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1330     Document Type: Article

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