Stabilized velocity post-processings for Darcy flow in heterogeneous porous media

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 461-489

  Correa, M R ^a   Loula, A F D ^a  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Galerkin least squares; Global post processing; Heterogeneous porous media; Local post processing; Stabilized finite element

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; STABILITY;

DARCY FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; STABILIZED FINITE ELEMENT;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; GALERKIN METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; STABILITY;

EID: 34250345185     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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