Coupling pore-scale networks to continuum-scale models of porous media

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-410

  Balhoff, Matthew T ^a   Thompson, Karsten E ^a   Hjortsø, Martin ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupling; Fractured porous media; Multiscale modeling; Network modeling; Pore scale modeling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; MULTISCALE MODELING; NETWORK MODELING; PORE-SCALE MODELING;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

EID: 33846534171     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.05.012     Document Type: Article

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