Generation of Voronoi grid based on vorticity for coarse-scale modeling of flow in heterogeneous formations

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 541-572

  Evazi, M ^a   Mahani, H ^b  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse grid; Heterogeneous porous media; Two phase flow; Unstructured grid; Upscaling; Vorticity based gridding

Indexed keywords

COARSE GRID; GRIDDING; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; UNSTRUCTURED GRID; UPSCALING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO PHASE FLOW; VORTICITY;

MESH GENERATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW STRUCTURE; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW; VORTICITY;

EID: 77953873591     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-009-9458-2     Document Type: Article

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