An efficient method for discretizing 3D fractured media for subsurface flow and transport simulations

DOI10.1002/FLD.2383MaRDI QIDQ3113530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hussein Mustapha, Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, Thomas Graf, Abbas Firoozabadi

Publication date 18 January 2012

Published in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.2383

zbMATH Keywords

flow and transportadaptive meshmesh generation3D discrete-fractured model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

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