Modified adaptive local-global upscaling method for discontinuous permeability distribution

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 675-689

  Kolyukhin, Dmitry ^a   Espedal, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptive local global upscaling; Deformation bands; Transmissibility

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DEFORMATION; GEOSTATISTICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEABILITY; SINGLE-PHASE FLOW; UPSCALING;

EID: 77955922102     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-010-9180-8     Document Type: Article

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