Convergence of a symmetric MPFA method on quadrilateral grids

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 333-345

  Aavatsmark, Ivar ^a   Eigestad, Geirte T ^a   Klausen, Runhildk A ^a,b   Wheeler, M F ^c   Yotov, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Control volume method; Mixed finite element method; Multipoint flux approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; TRANSFORM;

EID: 35649028710     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-007-9056-8     Document Type: Article

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