A hierarchical fracture model for the iterative multiscale finite volume method

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 8729-8743

  Hajibeygi, Hadi ^a   Karvounis, Dimitris ^a   Jenny, Patrick ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fractured porous media; Hierarchical fractured modeling; Iterative multiscale finite volume; Iterative multiscale methods; Multiscale finite volume; Multiscale fracture modeling; Multiscale methods

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FINITE VOLUME METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS;

FINITE-VOLUME; FRACTURE MODEL; FRACTURED POROUS MEDIA; HIERARCHICAL FRACTURED MODELING; ITERATIVE MULTISCALE; ITERATIVE MULTISCALE FINITE VOLUME; ITERATIVE MULTISCALE METHOD; MULTISCALE FINITE VOLUME; MULTISCALE FRACTURE MODELING; MULTISCALE METHOD;

FRACTURE;

EID: 80053622415     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.08.021     Document Type: Article

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