Treating highly anisotropic subsurface flow with the multiscale finite-volume method

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 308-318

  Lunati, Ivan ^a   Jenny, Patrick ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Multiphase flow in porous media; Multiscale finite volume method; Reservoir simulations

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW;

MULTISCALE FINITE-VOLUME METHOD; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 41649083398     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050638928     Document Type: Article

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