Multilevel Monte Carlo for two phase flow and Buckley-Leverett transport in random heterogeneous porous media

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 250, Issue , 2013, Pages 685-702

  Müller, Florian ^a   Jenny, Patrick ^a   Meyer, Daniel W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multilevel Monte Carlo; Random heterogeneous porous media; Streamline solver; Two phase flow; Two phase transport

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; POROUS MATERIALS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; MULTILEVEL MONTE CARLO; MULTILEVELS; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIUM; STREAMLINE SOLV; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TWO PHASES FLOW; TWO-PHASE TRANSPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 84937634671     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.03.023     Document Type: Article

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