Journal
MULTISCALE MODELING & SIMULATION
Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 559-594Publisher
SIAM PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1137/140953691
Keywords
multiscale finite volume method; MSFV; control-volume distributed multipoint flux approximation; CVD; MPFA
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- EPSRC
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This paper presents the development of finite-volume multiscale methods for quadrilateral and triangular unstructured grids. Families of Darcy-flux approximations have been developed for consistent approximation of the general tensor pressure equation arising from Darcy's law together with mass conservation. The schemes are control-volume distributed (CVD) with flow variables and rock properties sharing the same control-volume location and are comprised of a multipoint flux family formulation (CVD-MPFA). The schemes are used to develop a CVD-MPFA based multiscale finite-volume (MSFV) formulation applicable to both structured and unstructured grids in two dimensions. The basis functions are a key component of the MSFV method, and are a set of local solutions, usually defined subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. A generalization of the Cartesian grid Dirichlet basis functions described in [P. Jenny, S. H. Lee, and H. A. Tchelepi, J. Comput. Phys., 187 (2003), pp. 47-67] is presented here for unstructured grids. Whilst the transition from a Cartesian grid to an unstructured grid is largely successful, use of Dirichlet basis functions can still lead to pressure fields that exhibit spurious oscillations in areas of strong heterogeneity. New basis functions are proposed in an attempt to improve the pressure field solutions where Neumann boundary conditions are imposed almost everywhere, except corners which remain specified by Dirichlet values.
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