UPSCALING OF A CLASS OF NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS FOR THE FLOW TRANSPORT IN HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 493-515

  Chen, Zhiming ^a   Deng, Weibing ^a,b   Ye, Huang ^a,c  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous porous media; Nonlinear parabolic equation; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749376812     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2005.v3.n4.a2     Document Type: Article

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