Multilevel upscaling through variational coarsening

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  MacLachlan, Scott P ^a   Moulton, J David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POROUS MATERIALS;

INTERPOLATION OPERATORS; MULTILEVEL UPSCALING; SATURATED FLOW; VARIATIONAL COARSENING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POROUS MATERIALS;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERPOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; UPSCALING; WATER FLOW;

EID: 33645748300     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR003940     Document Type: Article

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