Solving the Buckley-Leverett equation with gravity in a heterogeneous porous medium

DOI10.1023/A:1011574824970zbMath0952.76085MaRDI QIDQ1302507

E. F. Kaasschieter

Publication date: 11 November 1999

Published in: Computational Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

entropy inequalityRiemann problemsGodunov methodsaturationunique solvabilityBuckley-Leverett equationheterogeneous porous mediumimmiscible two-phase flowcell interfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

Related Items (36)

Existence and Uniqueness of Entropy Solution of Scalar Conservation Laws with a Flux Function Involving Discontinuous Coefficients ⋮ Large-time behaviour of the entropy solution of a scalar conservation law with boundary conditions ⋮ Explicit Hopf-Lax type formulas for Hamilton-Jacobi equations and conservation laws with discontinuous coefficients ⋮ Approximating the vanishing capillarity limit of two-phase flow in multi-dimensional heterogeneous porous medium ⋮ A finite volume method for a two-phase multicomponent polymer flooding ⋮ A phase-by-phase upstream scheme that converges to the vanishing capillarity solution for countercurrent two-phase flow in two-rock media ⋮ Conservation law with the flux function discontinuous in the space variable. II: Convex-concave type fluxes and generalized entropy solutions ⋮ On interface transmission conditions for conservation laws with discontinuous flux of general shape ⋮ Finite volume approximation and well-posedness of conservation laws with moving interfaces under abstract coupling conditions ⋮ Discrete shock profiles for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous fluxes ⋮ Entropy conditions for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux revisited ⋮ Velocity averaging for diffusive transport equations with discontinuous flux ⋮ Vanishing viscosity on a star-shaped graph under general transmission conditions at the node ⋮ Buoyant flow of through and around a semi-permeable layer of finite extent ⋮ Microscopic Selection of Solutions to Scalar Conservation Laws with Discontinuous Flux in the Context of Vehicular Traffic ⋮ Unnamed Item ⋮ A class of Lagrangian-Eulerian shock-capturing schemes for first-order hyperbolic problems with forcing terms ⋮ On the Conservation Properties in Multiple Scale Coupling and Simulation for Darcy Flow with Hyperbolic-Transport in Complex Flows ⋮ Optimal results on TV bounds for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux ⋮ New non-oscillatory central schemes on unstructured triangulations for hyperbolic systems of conservation laws ⋮ Conservation laws with discontinuous flux: a short introduction ⋮ On the upstream mobility scheme for two-phase flow in porous media ⋮ The Godunov scheme for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous bell-shaped flux functions ⋮ A theory of \(L ^{1}\)-dissipative solvers for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux ⋮ Shock-Wave Behaviour of Sedimentation in Wastewater Treatment: A Rich Problem ⋮ Higher resolution total velocity \(Vt\) and \(Va\) finite-volume formulations on cell-centred structured and unstructured grids ⋮ Highly gravity-driven flow of a NAPL in water-saturated porous media using the discontinuous Galerkin finite-element method with a generalised Godunov scheme. Highly gravity-driven flow of a NAPL in water-saturated porous media ⋮ Vanishing capillarity solutions of Buckley-Leverett equation with gravity in two-rocks' medium ⋮ Numerical Methods for Nonlinear System of Hyperbolic Equations Arising in Oil Reservoir Simulation ⋮ Existence and nonexistence of TV bounds for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux ⋮ OPTIMAL ENTROPY SOLUTIONS FOR CONSERVATION LAWS WITH DISCONTINUOUS FLUX-FUNCTIONS ⋮ Weak asymptotic methods for scalar equations and systems ⋮ Systems of conservation laws with discontinuous fluxes and applications to traffic ⋮ A UNIQUENESS CONDITION FOR NONLINEAR CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS WITH DISCONTINUOUS COEFFICIENTS ⋮ Convergence of Godunov type methods for a conservation law with a spatially varying discontinuous flux function ⋮ BV regularity near the interface for nonuniform convex discontinuous flux

This page was built for publication: Solving the Buckley-Leverett equation with gravity in a heterogeneous porous medium