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The dynamics of the wetting front are considered during the imbibition of a fluid into a porous substrate through a circular drawing area. A mathematical model of this process, assuming incompressible Darcy flow, is presented, before the…
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We present projection-based mixed finite element methods for the solution of the unsteady Brinkman equations for incompressible single-phase flow with fixed in space porous solid inclusions. At each time step the method requires the…
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We present an algorithm for the numerical solution of the equations governing combustion in porous inert media. The discretization of the flow problem is performed by the mixed finite element method, the transport problems are discretized…
We consider a Darcy problem for saturated porous media written in dual formulation in presence of a fully immersed inclusion. The lowest order virtual element method is employ to derive the discrete approximation. In the present work we…
Time-dependent models of fluid motion in thin layers, subject to signed source terms, represent important sub-problems within climate dynamics. Examples include ice sheets, sea ice, and even shallow oceans and lakes. We address these…
This study investigates the steady-state Darcy-Brinkman flow within a thin, saturated porous domain, focusing on the effects of viscous dissipation and non-homogeneous boundary condition for the temperature. Employing asymptotic techniques…
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Accurate simulation of fluid flow in porous media is challenging due to complex pore-space geometries and the computational cost of solving the Navier-Stokes equations. This difficulty is particularly important when repeated simulations are…
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A solution technique is proposed for flows in porous media that guarantees local conservation of mass. We first compute a flux field to balance the mass source and then exploit exact co-chain complexes to generate a solenoidal correction. A…
Applied problems of oil and gas recovery are studied numerically using the mathematical models of multiphase fluid flows in porous media. The basic model includes the continuity equations and the Darcy laws for each phase, as well as the…