A streamline splitting pore-network approach for computationally inexpensive and accurate simulation of transport in porous media

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2488-2517

  Mehmani, Yashar ^a   Oostrom, Mart ^b   Balhoff, Matthew T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

flow and transport; micromodel experiments; mixed cell method (MCM); modeling; pore networks; pore scale modeling; streamline splitting method (SSM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; MIXING; MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

FLOW AND TRANSPORT; MIXED CELLS; PORE NETWORKS; PORE-SCALE MODEL; SPLITTING METHOD;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 84896412627     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014984     Document Type: Article

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