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    Generation of Voronoi grid based on vorticity for coarse-scale modeling of flow in heterogeneous formations

    , Article Transport in Porous Media ; Volume 83, Issue 3 , Oct , 2010 , Pages 541-572 ; 01693913 (ISSN) Evazi, M ; Mahani, H ; Sharif University of Technology
    2010
    Abstract
    We present a novel unstructured coarse grid generation technique based on vorticity for upscaling two-phase flow in permeable media. In the technique, the fineness of the gridblocks throughout the domain is determined by vorticity distribution such that where the larger is the vorticity at a region, the finer are the gridblocks at that region. Vorticity is obtained from single-phase flow on original fine grid, and is utilized to generate a background grid which stores spacing parameter, and is used to steer generation of triangular and finally Voronoi grids. This technique is applied to two channelized and heterogeneous models and two-phase flow simulations are performed on the generated...