A robust, mass conservative scheme for two-phase flow in porous media including Hölder continuous nonlinearities

NWO support through the Visitors Grant (040.11.351 to J.M.N.); Meltzer foundation, University of Bergen and the NWO Visitors Grant (040.11.499 to F.A.R.); Research Foundation–Flanders FWO through the Odysseus programme (G0G1316N to I.S.P.).

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