Modeling of two-phase flow in fractured porous media on unstructured non-uniformly coarsened grids

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-398

  Hauge, Vera Louise ^a,b   Aarnes, Jørg Espen ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fractured porous media; Two phase flow; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

COARSENING; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

COARSE GRIDS; FRACTURE PERMEABILITIES; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; MATRIX SEPARATIONS; NON-UNIFORM; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PHASE VISCOSITIES; UPSCALING; WELL LOCATIONS;

FRACTURE;

FRACTURE FLOW; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; TWO PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 63149121850     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9284-y     Document Type: Article

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