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Finite element discretization of Darcy's equations with pressure dependent porosity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

Vivette Girault ,
François Murat  and
Abner Salgado
Vivette Girault
Affiliation:
UPMC Univ. Paris 06, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 75005 Paris, France. girault@ann.jussieu.fr
François Murat
Affiliation:
CNRS, UMR 7598, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, 75005 Paris, France. murat@ann.jussieu.fr
Abner Salgado
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3368, USA. abnersg@math.tamu.edu
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Abstract

We consider the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a rigid homogeneous porous medium. The permeability of the medium depends on the pressure, so that the model is nonlinear. We propose a finite element discretization of this problem and, in the case where the dependence on the pressure is bounded from above and below, we prove its convergence to the solution and propose an algorithm to solve the discrete system. In the case where the dependence on the pressure is exponential, we propose a splitting scheme which involves solving two linear systems, but parts of the analysis of this method are still heuristic. Numerical tests are presented, which illustrate the introduced methods.


Keywords

Porous media flowsDarcy equationsfinite elements
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 44 , Issue 6 , November 2010 , pp. 1155 - 1191
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2010

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