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This article investigates the numerical solution of the Diffusive Wave equation posed on domains containing a large number of polygonal perforations, motivated by urban flood modeling. Such geometries induce strong multiscale effects driven…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Miranda Boutilier , Konstantin Brenner , Victorita Dolean

Geological settings with reservoir characteristics include fractures with different material and geometrical properties. Hence, numerical simulations in applied geophysics demands for computational frameworks which efficiently allow to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Patrick Zulian , Philipp Schädle , Liudmila Karagyaur , Maria Nestola

Traditional approaches to mathematically describe spontaneous imbibition are usually based on either macro-scale models, such as Richards equation, or simplified pore-scale models, such as the bundle of capillary tubes (BCTM) or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-07 Luka Malenica , Zhidong Zhang , Ueli Angst

We propose a description for transient penetration simulations of miscible and immiscible fluid mixtures into anisotropic porous media, using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. Our model incorporates hydrodynamic flow, diffusion, surface…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-22 M. Mendoza , F. K. Wittel , H. J. Herrmann

We formulate hydrodynamic equations and spectrally accurate numerical methods for investigating the role of geometry in flows within two-dimensional fluid interfaces. To achieve numerical approximations having high precision and level of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Ben J. Gross , Paul J. Atzberger

Turbulent flow over permeable interface is omnipresent featuring complex flow topology. In this work, a data driven, end to end machine learning model has been developed to model the turbulent flow in porous media. For the same, we have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-28 Xu Chu , Sandeep Pandey

This paper is concerned with the Richards equation in a heterogeneous domain, each subdomain of which is homogeneous and represents a rocktype. Our first contribution is to rigorously prove convergence toward a weak solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Sabrina Bassetto , Clément Cancès , Guillaume Enchéry , Quang-Huy Tran

In this paper, we define a non-iterative transformation method for boundary-layer flows of non-Newtonian fluids past a flat plate. The problem to be solved is an extended Blasius problem depending on a parameter. This method allows us to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Riccardo Fazio

The HLLC Riemann solver, which resolves both the shock waves and contact discontinuities, is popular to the computational fluid dynamics community studying compressible flow problems with mesh methods. Although it was reported to be used in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-13 Z. H. Ma , H. Wang , L. Qian

This paper proposes two algorithms to impose seepage boundary conditions in the context of Richards' equation for groundwater flows in unsaturated media. Seepage conditions are non-linear boundary conditions, that can be formulated as a set…

We develop an immersed boundary (IB) method for modeling flows around fixed or moving rigid bodies that is suitable for a broad range of Reynolds numbers, including steady Stokes flow. The spatio-temporal discretization of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-02 B. Kallemov , A. Pal Singh Bhalla , B. E. Griffith , A. Donev

Flow in fractured porous media is modeled frequently by discrete fracture-matrix approaches where fractures are treated as dimensionally reduced manifolds. Generalizing earlier work we focus on two-phase flow in time-dependent fracture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Samuel Burbulla , Christian Rohde

Observations show the multidimensional dynamics of meltwater and distribution of ice layers in the firn on the Greenland Ice Sheet. However, state-of-the-art large-scale models for firn hydrology are essentially one-dimensional, limiting…

We present the derivation of a new unidirectional model for We present the derivation of a new unidirectional model for unsteady mixed flows in non uniform closed water pipes. We introduce a local reference frame to take into account the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-02 Christian Bourdarias , Mehmet Ersoy , Stéphane Gerbi

In this paper, a meshfree method using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) is developed for solving two-phase flow problems with moving interfaces, where two immiscible fluids bearing different material properties, are separated by a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Qijia Zhai , Pengtao Sun , Xiaoping Xie , Xingwen Zhu , Chen-Song Zhang

The work is devoted to the development and computational implementation of the homogenization method for modeling unsteady flows of a viscous incompressible fluid in periodic porous media taking into account memory effects. At the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 P. N. Vabishchevich

Wave propagation in a stratified fluid / porous medium is studied here using analytical and numerical methods. The semi-analytical method is based on an exact stiffness matrix method coupled with a matrix conditioning procedure, preventing…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-07-11 Gaëlle Lefeuve-Mesgouez , Arnaud Mesgouez , Guillaume Chiavassa , Bruno Lombard

We utilize generalized moving least squares (GMLS) to develop meshfree techniques for discretizing hydrodynamic flow problems on manifolds. We use exterior calculus to formulate incompressible hydrodynamic equations in the Stokesian regime…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 B. J. Gross , N. Trask , P. Kuberry , P. J. Atzberger

Multi-component fluid flow simulations in multi-scale porous structures often involve regions that are under-resolved at practical computational resolutions. Accurately capturing the contributions from these unresolved regions is critical.…

It is well known that domain-decomposition-based multiscale mixed methods rely on interface spaces, defined on the skeleton of the decomposition, to connect the solution among the non-overlapping subdomains. Usual spaces, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Franciane F. Rocha , Fabricio S. Sousa , Roberto F. Ausas , Felipe Pereira , Gustavo C. Buscaglia