Adaptive strategies in the multilevel multiscale mimetic (M3) method for two-phase flows in porous media

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 991-1016

  Lipnikov, K ^a   Moulton, J D ^a   Svyatskiy, D ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Multiscale method; Transport in porous media; Two phase flows; Well modeling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHES; ADAPTIVE STRATEGY; AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; CORRELATION LENGTHS; ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS; EQUIDISTRIBUTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE DISCRETIZATION; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HETEROGENEOUS RESERVOIRS; HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS; MULTISCALE METHOD; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POROUS MEDIUM; RESERVOIR PRESSURES; STRUCTURE-PRESERVING; TENSOR PERMEABILITY; TRANSPORT EQUATION; TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA; UNIFIED MODEL; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES; UPSCALING; VELOCITY FIELD; WATER SATURATIONS; WELL MODEL;

MESH GENERATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; VELOCITY;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 80054884091     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100787544     Document Type: Article

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