Empirical versus time stepping with embedded error control for density-driven flow in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Younes, Anisa ^a   Ackerer, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TIME STEPPING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; DENSITY DRIVEN FLOWS; ERROR CONTROL; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; MODELING DENSITY; NON-ITERATIVE; NON-LINEAR SOLVER; NONLINEAR COUPLING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; TIME STEP; TIME STEP LENGTH; TIME STEP SIZE; TIME-STEPPING; TIME-STEPPING SCHEMES; TRUNCATION ERRORS;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POROUS MATERIALS;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUID FLOW; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 77955826443     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008229     Document Type: Article

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