Upscaled Lattice Boltzmann Method for Simulations of Flows in Heterogeneous Porous Media
@article{Li2013UpscaledLB, title={Upscaled Lattice Boltzmann Method for Simulations of Flows in Heterogeneous Porous Media}, author={Jun Li and Donald L. Brown}, journal={arXiv: Computational Physics}, year={2013} }
A upscaled lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for flow simulations in heterogeneous porous media, at both pore and Darcy scales, is proposed in this paper. In the micro-scale simulations, we model flows using LBM with the modified Guo et al. algorithm where we replace the force model with a simple Shan-Chen force model. The proposed upscaled LBM uses coarser grids to represent the effects of the fine-grid (pore-scale) simulations. For the upscaled LBM, effective properties and reduced-order models…
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