Tracing streamlines on unstructured grids from finite volume discretizations

Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 4735-4742

  Matringe, S F ^a   Juanes, R ^b   Tchelepi, H A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

MULTIPOINT FLUX APPROXIMATION (MPFA); UNSTRUCTURED GRIDS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 33751009932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/103295-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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