On the importance of the stokes-brinkman equations for computing effective permeability in karst reservoirs

Communications in Computational Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1315-1332

  Krotkiewski, Marcin ^a   Ligaarden, Ingeborg S ^b   Lie, Knut Andreas ^a,b   Schmid, Daniel W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SINTEF ICT   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brinkman equation; Porous media; Stokes equation; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051725011     PISSN: 18152406     EISSN: 19917120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4208/cicp.290610.020211a     Document Type: Article

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