An efficient method for discretizing 3D fractured media for subsurface flow and transport simulations

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 651-670

  Mustapha, Hussein ^a   Dimitrakopoulos, Roussos ^a   Graf, Thomas ^b   Firoozabadi, Abbas ^c,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c RESERVOIR ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D discrete fractured model; Adaptive mesh; Flow and transport; Mesh generation

Indexed keywords

3D DISCRETE-FRACTURED MODEL; ADAPTIVE MESHES; ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; EFFICIENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURED MEDIA; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; VERTICAL FRACTURE;

FRACTURE; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79751533465     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.2383     Document Type: Article

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