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A Locally Conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method for Flow in a Porous Medium of a Mixture of Two Components Having Different Densities

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The object of this paper is to develop an efficient, conservative, Eulerian-Lagrangian numerical method for the differential system describing miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another of different density in a porous medium. The method will be a variant of the “Locally Conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method” that has been studied for immiscible displacement.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-1395, USA

    Jim Douglas Jr.

  2. Instituto Politécnico da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil, 28601-970

    Felipe Pereira

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Li-Ming Yeh

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Douglas, J., Pereira, F., Yeh, LM. (2000). A Locally Conservative Eulerian-Lagrangian Method for Flow in a Porous Medium of a Mixture of Two Components Having Different Densities. In: Chen, Z., Ewing, R.E., Shi, ZC. (eds) Numerical Treatment of Multiphase Flows in Porous Media. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45467-5_11

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