Discretizing two-dimensional complex fractured fields for incompressible two-phase flow

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 764-780

  Mustapha, Hussein ^a   Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh; Discrete fractured model; Discretization; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESHES; COMPLEX CONFIGURATION; DISCRETE FRACTURED MODEL; DISCRETIZATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT GRID; FRACTURED MEDIA; GRID SIZE; MESH QUALITY; POROUS MEDIA; TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; TRIANGULAR GRID;

POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; TWO PHASE FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79551495651     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2197     Document Type: Article

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