A comparison of multiscale methods for elliptic problems in porous media flow

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-398

  Kippe, Vegard ^a,b   Aarnes, Jørg E ^a   Lie, Knut Andreas ^a  

^a SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Multiscale methods; Numerical comparisons; Porous media flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; GRID COMPUTING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DOWNSCALING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 44649114132     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-007-9074-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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