Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
520336 Journal of Computational Physics 2010 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present an exponential time integrator in conjunction with a finite volume discretisation in space for simulating transport by advection and diffusion including chemical reactions in highly heterogeneous porous media representative of geological reservoirs. These numerical integrators are based on the variation of constants solution and solving the linear system exactly. This is at the expense of computing the exponential of the stiff matrix comprising the finite volume discretisation. Using real Léja points or a Krylov subspace technique compared to standard finite difference-based time integrators. We observe for a variety of example applications that numerical solutions with exponential methods are generally more accurate and require less computational cost. They hence comprise an efficient and accurate method for simulating non-linear advection-dominated transport in geological formations.

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