Pore-to-field simulation of single-phase transport using continuous time random walks

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1527-1539

  Rhodes, Matthew E ^a   Bijeljic, Branko ^b   Blunt, Martin J ^b  

^a Chevron North Sea Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous time random walk; Numerical simulation; Particle tracking; Single phase transport; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; METRIC SYSTEM; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SANDSTONE;

CONTINUOUS TIME RANDOM WALK; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARTICLE TRACKING; SINGLE-PHASE TRANSPORT; UPSCALING;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; ALGORITHM; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANDOM WALK METHOD; RESERVOIR; SANDSTONE; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

HUMULUS;

EID: 55849148422     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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