A multiscale finite element method for elliptic problems in composite materials and porous media
Journal of Computational Physics
Convergence of a Nonconforming Multiscale Finite Element Method
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
A mixed multiscale finite element method for elliptic problems with oscillating coefficients
Mathematics of Computation
Multi-scale finite-volume method for elliptic problems in subsurface flow simulation
Journal of Computational Physics
Multiscale finite-volume method for compressible multiphase flow in porous media
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Iterative multiscale finite-volume method
Journal of Computational Physics
Modeling complex wells with the multi-scale finite-volume method
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
A hierarchical fracture model for the iterative multiscale finite volume method
Journal of Computational Physics
Block-spectral mapping for multi-scale solution
Journal of Computational Physics
Algebraic multiscale solver for flow in heterogeneous porous media
Journal of Computational Physics
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The multiscale finite volume (MSFV) method is a computationally efficient numerical method for the solution of elliptic and parabolic problems with heterogeneous coefficients. It has been shown for a wide range of test cases that the MSFV results are in close agreement with those obtained with a classical (computationally expensive) technique. The method, however, fails to give accurate results for highly anisotropic heterogeneous problems due to weak localization assumptions. Recently, a convergent iterative MSFV (i-MSFV) method was developed to enhance the quality of the multiscale results by improving the localization conditions. Although the i-MSFV method proved to be efficient for most practical problems, it is still favorable to improve the localization condition adaptively, i.e. only for a sub-domain where the original MSFV localization conditions are not acceptable, e.g. near shale layers and long coherent structures with high permeability contrasts. In this paper, a space-time adaptive i-MSFV (ai-MSFV) method is introduced. It is shown how to improve the MSFV results adaptively in space and simulation time. The fine-scale smoother, which is necessary for convergence of the i-MSFV method, is also applied locally. Finally, for multiphase flow problems, two criteria are investigated for adaptively updating the MSFV interpolation functions: (1) a criterion based on the total mobility change for the transient coefficients and (2) a criterion based on the pressure equation residual for the accuracy of the results. For various challenging test cases it is demonstrated that iterations in order to obtain accurate results even for highly anisotropic heterogeneous problems are required only in small sub-domains and not everywhere. The findings show that the error introduced in the MSFV framework can be controlled and improved very efficiently with very little additional computational cost compared to the original, non-iterative MSFV method.