A direct method for the identification of the permeability field based on flux assimilation by a discrete analog of Darcy's law

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-112

  Zijl, Wouter ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discrete Darcy's law; Edge based vector potentials; Flux assimilation; Inverse modeling

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; VECTORS;

FLUX ASSIMILATION METHOD; FLUX DENSITY; INVERSE MODELS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

DARCY LAW; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 2342427541     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TIPM.0000018405.22085.99     Document Type: Article

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