Flow based oversampling technique for multiscale finite element methods

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-608

  Chu, J ^a   Efendiev, Y ^b   Ginting, V ^c   Hou, T Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite volume; Multiscale; Oversampling; Two phase flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SAMPLING; TWO PHASE FLOW;

MULTISCALE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; MULTISCALE SIMULATIONS; OVERSAMPLING; UPSCALING;

POROUS MATERIALS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POROUS MATERIALS; SAMPLING; TWO PHASE FLOW;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 40849118043     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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