Multi-Scale Finite-Volume Method for Highly Heterogeneous Porous Media with Shale Layers
Ivan Lunati, Patrick Jenny · 2004
B006 MULTI-SCALE FINITE-VOLUME METHOD FOR HIGHLY HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA WITH SHALE LAYERS Abstract 1 A multi-scale finite-volume (MSFV) method for solving elliptic problem in highly heterogeneous media was recently developed. The goal of the MSFV method is not simply to capture the large-scale effects of the fine-scale heterogeneity but to fully describe the fine-scale velocity field with the original resolution. Thus the MSFV method differs fundamentally from upscaling since it provides an efficient tool for solving large flow problems with fine-scale resolution. The first step in the MSFV method is to compute the effective parameters that are used to solve