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...

Here Darcy-Forchheimer flow of viscoelastic fluids has been analyzed in the presence of Cattaneo-Christov heat flux and homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions. Results for two viscoelastic fluids are obtained and compared. A linear stretching surface has been used to generate the flow. Flow in porous media is characterized by considering the Darcy-Forchheimer model. Modified version of Fourier's l...

We present a method to efficiently simulate coronary perfusion in subject-specific models of the heart within clinically relevant time frames. Perfusion is modelled as a Darcy porous-media flow, where the permeability tensor is derived from homogenization of an explicit anatomical representation of the vasculature. To account for the disparity in length scales present in the vascular network, i...

constant rate of strain (crs) consolidation is a rapid test method used for determination of compressibility of clayey soils. in a crs test, the appropriate strain rate is selected based on pore water pressure ratio, i.e. the ratio of pore pressure to total stress. in the present study, to investigate the effect of strain rate on variation of relative pore water pressure, four different clay sa...

We study the existence of weak solutions to a Cahn–Hilliard–Darcy system coupled with a convection-reaction-diffusion equation through the fluxes, through the source terms and in Darcy’s law. The system of equations arises from a mixture model for tumour growth accounting for transport mechanisms such as chemotaxis and active transport. We prove, via a Galerkin approximation, the existence of g...

We consider a family of mixed finite element discretizations of the Darcy flow equations using totally discontinuous elements (both for the pressure and the flux variable). Instead of using a jump stabilization as it is usually done for DG methods (see e.g. [3], [13] and the references therein) we use the stabilization introduced in [18], [17]. We show that such stabilization works for disconti...

In spite of the hype in the international media about India’s global integration, economic reform there has been rather halting and hesitant. Cheerleaders of reform among corporate tycoons and financial columnists are often not aware how unpopular reform is, rightly or wrongly, among the general public in India. In the National Election Survey 2004 more than twothirds of about 23000 sample resp...

We develop a finite element discretization and multigrid solver for a Darcy-Stokes system of three dimensional vuggy porous media, i.e., porous media with cavities. The finite element method uses low order mixed finite elements in the Darcy and Stokes domains, and special transition elements near the Darcy-Stokes interface to allow for tangential discontinuities implied by the Beavers-Joseph bo...

In the present work, forced convection heat transfer of slip flow in porous micro-tubes with local thermal non-equilibrium between the gas and the solid matrix is investigated numerically. For this purpose, the flow is considered hydrodynamically developed but thermally developing. The Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer model in conjunction with separate energy equations for the gas and the solid matri...