Numerical stability analysis of two-dimensional solute transport along a discrete fracture in a porous rock matrix

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 5855-5868

  Watanabe, Norihiro ^a   Kolditz, Olaf ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

discrete fracture; numerical stability; solute transport

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MESH GENERATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STABILITY;

DISCRETE FRACTURES; FLUX CORRECTED TRANSPORTS; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT METHODS; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIVITY; NUMERICAL STABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; STABILITY CONDITION; TRANSPORT SIMULATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIVITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW VELOCITY; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; ROCK PROPERTY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84939448807     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017164     Document Type: Article

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