Efficient flow and transport simulations in reconstructed 3D pore geometries

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1508-1516

  Zaretskiy, Yan ^a   Geiger, Sebastian ^a   Sorbie, Ken ^a   Förster, Malte ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SCAI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algebraic multigrid; Finite element; Finite volume; Navier Stokes equation; Pore scale modeling; Solute transport

Indexed keywords

3D GEOMETRY; ADVECTION DIFFUSION EQUATION; ALGEBRAIC MULTIGRIDS; CONVECTION-DOMINATED; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE VOLUME; FINITE VOLUME SIMULATIONS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FLOW REGIMES; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; MACROSCOPIC HYDRODYNAMICS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTITIES; MICRO CT; MOLECULAR DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL RECONSTRUCTION; PARALLELIZATIONS; PORE GEOMETRY; PORE SPACE; PORE SYSTEM; PORE-SCALE MODELING; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; PROOF OF CONCEPT; SANDSTONE SAMPLES; SINGLE-PHASE FLUID; SOLUTE SPECIES; UPSCALING;

ADVECTION; ALGEBRA; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VISCOUS FLOW;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW MODELING; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; RECONSTRUCTION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 78649635550     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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