Modeling fractures and barriers as interfaces for flow in porous media

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1667-1691

  Martin, Vincent ^a   Jaffré, Jérôme ^b   Roberts, Jean E ^b  

^a ANDRA   (France)

^b INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

Barriers; Domain decomposition; Faults; Flow in porous media; Fractures; Mixed finite elements

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BARRIERS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; FAULTS; FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; MIXED FINITE ELEMENTS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 25444530880     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827503429363     Document Type: Article

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