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We propose an efficient iterative method to solve the mixed Stokes-Dracy model for coupling fluid and porous media flow. The weak formulation of this problem leads to a coupled, indefinite, ill-conditioned and symmetric linear system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-08-09 Antonio Márquez , Salim Meddahi , Francisco-Javier Sayas

The problem of the flow trough a porous media is formulated in terms of a pressure equation, based on arguments of volume conservation which state the mechanical equilibrium between the solid and the fluid phases. In the resulting governing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-19 Francisco Mandujano Carlos Málaga

Problems with localized nonhomogeneous material properties present well-known challenges for numerical simulations. In particular, such problems may feature large differences in length scales, causing difficulties with meshing and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Alex Viguerie , Silvia Bertoluzza , Alessandro Veneziani , Ferdinando Auricchio

In this paper, we investigate the speed of convergence and higher-order asymptotics of solutions to the porous medium equation posed in $\mathbf{R}^N$. Applying a nonlinear change of variables, we rewrite the equation as a diffusion on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Christian Seis

In this work we present a mass conservative numerical scheme for two-phase flow in porous media. The model for flow consists on two fully coupled, non-linear equations: a degenerate parabolic equation and an elliptic equation. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Florin Adrian Radu , Kundan Kumar , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Iuliu Sorin Pop

In this paper we develop and analyse domain decomposition methods for linear systems of equations arising from conforming finite element discretisations of positive Maxwell-type equations. Convergence of domain decomposition methods rely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Niall Bootland , Victorita Dolean , Frédéric Nataf , Pierre-Henri Tournier

We consider a two-phase Darcy flow in a fractured and deformable porous medium for which the fractures are described as a network of planar surfaces leading to so-called hybrid-dimensional models. The fractures are assumed open and filled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Francesco Bonaldi , Konstantin Brenner , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson , Antoine Pasteau , Laurent Trenty

This paper deals with the efficient numerical solution of single-phase flow problems in fractured porous media. A monolithic multigrid method is proposed for solving two-dimensional arbitrary fracture networks with vertical and/or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Andrés Arrarás , Francisco J. Gaspar , Laura Portero , Carmen Rodrigo

A numerical method for processing the data of ground penetrating radars for a piece-wise continuous layered medium is proposed. The method combines the layer stripping technique with numerical continuation of data into the complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Ruben Airapetyan

In this study, we investigate the appeared complexity of two-phase flow (air-water) in a heterogeneous soil where the supposed porous media is non-deformable media which is under the time-dependent gas pressure. After obtaining of governing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Hamed . O. Ghaffari

We extend the two-scale expansion approach of periodic homogenization to include time scales and thus can tackle the full instationary Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model at the pore scale as microscale. Time scale separation allows us to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-04 Stefan Metzger , Peter Knabner

In this paper, we consider a non-local (in time) two-phase flow model. The non-locality is introduced through the wettability alteration induced dynamic capillary pressure function. We present a monotone fixed-point iterative linearization…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Abay M. Kassa , Kundan Kumar , Sarah E. Gasda , Florin A. Radu

Simulating the flow of two fluid phases in porous media is a challenging task, especially when fractures are included in the simulation. Fractures may have highly heterogeneous properties compared to the surrounding rock matrix,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Enrico Ballini , Luca Formaggia , Alessio Fumagalli , Eirik Keilegavlen , Anna Scotti

The paper considers a thermodynamically consistent phase-field model of a two-phase flow of incompressible viscous fluids. The model allows for a non-linear dependence of fluid density on the phase-field order parameter. Driven by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Yerbol Palzhanov , Alexander Zhiliakov , Annalisa Quaini , Maxim Olshanskii

In this work, we study the parallel-in-time iterative solution of coupled flow and geomechanics in porous media, modelled by a two-field formulation of the Biot's equations. In particular, we propose a new version of the fixed stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Manuel Borregales , Kundan Kumar , Florin Adrian Radu , Carmen Rodrigo , Francisco José Gaspar

The Richards equation, a nonlinear elliptic parabolic equation, is widely used to model infiltration in porous media. We develop a finite element method for solving the Richards equation by introducing a new bounded auxiliary variable to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Abderrahmane Benfanich , Yves Bourgault , Abdelaziz Beljadid

In this work, we propose a new model for flow through deformable porous media, where the solid material has two phases with distinct material properties. The two phases of the porous material follow a Cahn-Hilliard type evolution, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

We model multi-dimensional two-phase flows of incompressible fluids in porous media using generalized Forchheimer equations and the capillary pressure. Firstly, we find a family of steady state solutions whose saturation and pressure are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Luan T. Hoang , Akif Ibragimov , Thinh T. Kieu

Developing high-order numerical schemes for two-phase flow in porous media that preserve key physical properties remains a significant challenge in numerical analysis. In this article, we propose a general framework to construct fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Xiaoli Li , Cheng Wang , Yujing Yan , Nan Zheng

In this paper we employ homogenization techniques to provide a rigorous derivation of the Darcy scale model for precipitation and dissolution in porous media proposed in [19]. The starting point is the pore scale model in [12], which is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Kundan Kumar , Maria Neuss-Radu , Iuliu Sorin Pop