A parallel second-order adaptive mesh algorithm for incompressible flow in porous media

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1907, 2009, Pages 4633-4654

  Pau, George S H ^a   Almgren, Ann S ^a   Bell, John B ^a   Lijewski, Michael J ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Darcy flow; Porous media

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARALLEL FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; VELOCITY;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHES; ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT; BASIC INTEGRATION; COARSE GRID; CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; CONSERVATION OF MASS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DARCY FLOWS; DARCY'S LAW; DIVERGENCE FREE; FINE GRIDS; INTEGRATION ALGORITHM; NESTED HIERARCHY; NONLINEAR HYPERBOLIC EQUATION; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PHASE FORMS; PHASE SATURATIONS; POROUS MEDIA; PRESSURE EQUATIONS; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; RECURSIVE PROCEDURE; RELATIVE PERMEABILITY; SECOND ORDERS; SPACE AND TIME; TIME-STEPPING;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 73249149869     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0160     Document Type: Article

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