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In this paper we present a multi-scale finite-volume (MSFV) method to solve elliptic problems with many spatial scales arising from flow in porous media. The method efficiently captures the effects of small scales on a coarse grid, is conservative, and treats tensor permeabilities correctly. The underlying idea is to construct transmissibilities that capture the local properties of the differential operator. This leads to a multi-point discretization scheme for the finite-volume solution algorithm. Transmissibilities for the MSFV have to be constructed only once as a preprocessing step and can be computed locally. Therefore this step is perfectly suited for massively parallel computers. Furthermore, a conservative fine-scale velocity field can be constructed from the coarse-scale pressure solution. Two sets of locally computed basis functions are employed. The first set of basis functions captures the small-scale heterogeneity of the underlying permeability field, and it is computed in order to construct the effective coarse-scale transmissibilities. A second set of basis functions is required to construct a conservative fine-scale velocity field. The accuracy and efficiency of our method is demonstrated by various numerical experiments. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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Multi-scale finite-volume method for elliptic problems in subsurface flow simulation

In this paper we present a multi-scale finite-volume (MSFV) method to solve elliptic problems with many spatial scales arising from flow in porous media. The method efficiently captures the effects of small scales on a coarse grid, is conservative, and treats tensor permeabilities correctly. The underlying idea is to construct transmissibilities that capture the local properties of the differential operator. This leads to a multi-point discretization scheme for the finite-volume solution algorithm. Transmissibilities for the MSFV have to be constructed only once as a preprocessing step and can be computed locally. Therefore this step is perfectly suited for massively parallel computers. Furthermore, a conservative fine-scale velocity field can be constructed from the coarse-scale pressure solution. Two sets of locally computed basis functions are employed. The first set of basis functions captures the small-scale heterogeneity of the underlying permeability field, and it is computed in order to construct the effective coarse-scale transmissibilities. A second set of basis functions is required to construct a conservative fine-scale velocity field. The accuracy and efficiency of our method is demonstrated by various numerical experiments. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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tensor permeabilities multipoint discretization scheme numerical experiments smallscale heterogeneity of the underlying permeability field conservative finescale velocity field elliptic problems transmissibilities flow in porous media multiscale finitevolume msfv method finitevolume solution local properties of the differential operator many spatial scales massively parallel computers grid locally computed basis functions effective coarsescale

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Lee, SH ,Tchelepi, HA,Jenny, P ,.Multi-scale finite-volume method for elliptic problems in subsurface flow simulation. 187 (),21.

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