Tracing streamlines on unstructured grids from finite volume discretizations

SPE Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 423-431

  Matringe, Sébastian F ^a   Juanes, Ruben ^a,b   Tchelepi, Hamdi A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; VELOCITY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

DISCRETIZATION METHOD; DISCRETIZATION SCHEME; FINITE VOLUME DISCRETIZATIONS; FLUX RECONSTRUCTION; MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; MIXED FINITE ELEMENTS; MULTIPOINT FLUX APPROXIMATIONS; RESERVOIR SIMULATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 58149510381     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/103295-PA     Document Type: Article

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