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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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-07 Edward W. G. Skevington

We present the first convergence proof for an iso-parametric finite element discretization of two-phase Stokes flow in $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, with interface dynamics governed by mean curvature. The proof relies on a crucial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Genming Bai , Harald Garcke , Shravan Veerapaneni

We present modeling of the incompressible viscous flows in the domain containing an unconfined fluid and a porous medium. For such setting a rigorous derivation of the Beavers-Joseph-Saffman interface condition was undertaken by J\"ager and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-09-17 Anna Marciniak-Czochra , Andro Mikelic

We study the homogenization problem for a system of stochastic differential equation with local time terms that models a multivariate diffusion in presence of semipermeable hyperplane interfaces with oblique penetration. We show that this…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Olga Aryasova , Ilya Pavlyukevich , Andrey Pilipenko

We propose and analyse an augmented mixed finite element method for the Oseen equations written in terms of velocity, vorticity, and pressure with non-constant viscosity and homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition for the velocity. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-04 Veronica Anaya , Ruben Caraballo , Bryan Gomez-Vargas , David Mora , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

A new approach to the modelling of wetting fronts in porous media on the Darcy scale is developed, based on considering the types (modes) of motion the menisci go through on the pore scale. This approach is illustrated using a simple model…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-07 Y. D. Shikhmurzaev , J. E. Sprittles

This paper develops the a priori analysis of a mixed finite element method for the filtration of an incompressible fluid through a non-deformable saturated porous medium with heterogeneous permeability. Flows are governed by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Sergio Caucao , Marco Discacciati

We consider the flow of a generalized Newtonian fluid through a thin porous medium of thickness $\epsilon$, perforated by periodically distributed solid cylinders of size $\epsilon$. We assume that the fluid is described by the 3D…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Maria Anguiano , Matthieu Bonnivard , Francisco Javier Suarez-Grau

This work is concerned with the equation $ \partial_t \rho = \Delta_x \rho^m $, $ m > 1 $, known as the porous medium equation. It shows stability of the pressure of solutions close to flat travelling wave fronts in the homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-03 Clemens Kienzler

In this paper, we consider the Stokes problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions and the constant kinematic viscosity $\nu$ in an axis-aligned domain $\Omega$. We decouple the velocity $\bm u$ and pressure $p$ by deriving a novel biharmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Qiwei Feng , Bin Han , Michael Neilan

We study a decoupling iterative algorithm based on domain decomposition for the time-dependent nonlinear Stokes-Darcy model, in which different time steps can be used in the flow region and in the porous medium. The coupled system is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang , Hyesuk Lee

The sigma-convergence concept has been up to now used to derive macroscopic models in full space dimensions. In this work, we generalize it to thin heterogeneous domains given rise to phenomena in lower space dimensions. More precisely, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Willi Jäger , Jean Louis Woukeng

We consider a time-dependent coupled Navier--Stokes/generalized poroelastic flow problem and propose a unified and monolithic finite element discretization based on implicit time stepping. To handle the fluid-structure interface we employ a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Aparna Bansal , Nicolas A. Barnafi , Dwijendra Narain Pandey , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

The flux-mortar mixed finite element method was recently developed for a general class of domain decomposition saddle point problems on non-matching grids. In this work we develop the method for Darcy flow using the multipoint flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Wietse M. Boon , Dennis Gläser , Rainer Helmig , Ivan Yotov

The Richards equation is a nonlinear parabolic equation that is commonly used for modelling saturated/unsaturated flow in porous media. We assume that the medium occupies a bounded Lipschitz domain partitioned into two disjoint subdomains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-14 David Seus , Koondanibha Mitra , Iuliu Sorin Pop , Florin Adrian Radu , Christian Rohde

We present a finite element method for the Stokes equations involving two immiscible incompressible fluids with different viscosities and with surface tension. The interface separating the two fluids does not need to align with the mesh. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

We first prove local-in-time well-posedness for the Muskat problem, modeling fluid flow in a two-dimensional inhomogeneous porous media. The permeability of the porous medium is described by a step function, with a jump discontinuity across…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Rafael Granero-Belinchón , Steve Shkoller

We study a diffuse interface model describing the motion of two viscous fluids driven by the surface tension in a Hele-Shaw cell. The full system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation coupled with the Darcy's law. We address the physically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Andrea Giorgini

In this paper, a stabilized extended finite element method is proposed for Stokes interface problems on unfitted triangulation elements which do not require the interface align with the triangulation. The velocity solution and pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Xiaoxiao He , Fei Song , Weibing Deng

We extend the Balancing Domain Decomposition by Constraints (BDDC) method to flows in porous media discretised by mixed-hybrid finite elements with combined mesh dimensions. Such discretisations appear when major geological fractures are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Jakub Šístek , Jan Březina , Bedřich Sousedík