In this paper we develop the two-equation model for solute transport and adsorption in a two-region model of a mechanically and chemically heterogeneous porous medium. The closure problem is derived and the coefficients in both the oneand two-equation models are determined on the basis of the Darcy-scale parameters. Numerical experiments are carried out for a stratified system at the aquifer sc...

The bio-thermal convection in a rotating layer of porous medium saturated with Newtonian fluid gyrotactic microorganisms is studied on the basis Darcy–Brinkman model. A linear analysis carried out using Galerkin method for rigid-rigid boundary conditions. In stationary regime, we obtained dispersion equation relation between thermal Rayleigh–Darcy number and bioconvection. influence Peclet numb...

This article analyses the convergence of the Vertex Approximate Gradient (VAG) scheme recently introduced in Eymard et al. 2012 for the discretization of multiphase Darcy flows on general polyhedral meshes. The convergence of the scheme to a weak solution is shown in the particular case of an incompressible immiscible two-phase Darcy flow model with capillary diffusion using a global pressure f...

Darcy’s Law is the fundamental equation describing the flow of fluid through porous media including groundwater. It forms the quantitative basis of many science and engineering disciplines including hydrology, hydrogeology, soil science, civil engineering, petroleum engineering and chemical engineering. The year 2006 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Darcy’s most famous t...

Abstract. The simplest pair of spaces P1/P0 is made inf-sup stable for the mixed form of the Darcy equation. The key ingredient is enhance the finite element spaces inside a PetrovGalerkin framework with functions satisfying element-wise local Darcy problems with right hand sides depending on the residuals over elements and edges. The enriched method is symmetric, locally mass conservative and ...

In this paper, we first present the THex algorithm that refines a tetrahedral mesh into a hexahedral mesh. Strategies for efficient implementation of the THex algorithm are discussed. Then we present the lowest order weak Galerkin (WG) (Q0, Q0;RT[0]) finite element method for solving the Darcy equation on general hexahedral meshes. This simple solver uses constant pressure unknowns inside hexah...

The present work involves numerical simulation of a steady, incompressible forcedconvection fluid flow through a matrix of porous media between two parallel plates at constanttemperature. A Darcy model for the momentum equation was employed. The mathematical model forenergy transport was based on single phase equation model which assumes local thermal equilibriumbetween fluid and solid phases. ...

A new symmetric local projection method built on residual bases (RELP) makes linear equal-order finite element pairs stable for the Darcy problem. The derivation is performed inside a Petrov-Galerkin enriching space approach (PGEM) which indicates parameter-free terms to be added to the Galerkin method without compromising consistency. Velocity and pressure spaces are augmented using solutions ...

A general form of the double porosity model of single phase flow in a naturally fractured reservoir is derived from homogenization theory. The microscopic model consists of the usual equations describing Darcy flow in a reservoir, except that the porosity and permeability coefficients are highly discontinuous. Over the matrix domain, the coefficients are scaled by a parameter representing the s...

We study the generalized Forchheimer equations for slightly compressible fluids in porous media. The structural stability is established with respect to either the boundary data or the coefficients of the Forchheimer polynomials. An inhomogeneous Poincare-Sobolev inequality related to the non-linearity of the equation is used to study the asymptotic behavior of the solutions. Moreover, we prove...