Title
Nonlocal multicontinua upscaling for multicontinua flow problems in fractured porous media
Abstract
Our goal of this paper is to develop a new upscaling method for multicontinua flow problems in fractured porous media. We consider a system of equations that describes flow phenomena with multiple flow variables defined on both matrix and fractures. To construct our upscaled model, we will apply the nonlocal multicontinua (NLMC) upscaling technique. The upscaled coefficients are obtained by using some multiscale basis functions, which are solutions of local problems defined on oversampled regions. For each continuum within a target coarse element, we will solve a local problem defined on an oversampling region obtained by extending the target element by few coarse grid layers, with a set of constraints which enforce the local solution to have mean value one on the chosen continuum and zero mean otherwise. The resulting multiscale basis functions have been shown to have good approximation properties. To illustrate the idea of our approach, we will consider a dual continua background model consisting of discrete fractures in two space dimensions, that is, we consider a system with three continua. We will present several numerical examples, and they show that our method is able to capture the interaction between matrix continua and discrete fractures on the coarse grid efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.cam.2019.01.024
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Upscaling method,Multicontinua flow problem,Fractured porous media,Nonlocal multicontinua method,NLMC,Multiscale method
System of linear equations,Oversampling,Matrix (mathematics),Mathematical analysis,Flow (psychology),Continuum (design consultancy),Basis function,Porous medium,Grid,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
355
0377-0427
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Vasilyeva1152.39
Eric T. Chung238846.61
Siu Wun Cheung341.79
Yating Wang451.47
Georgy Prokopev510.36