Title
Coupling Fluid Flow with Porous Media Flow
Abstract
The transport of substances back and forth between surface water and groundwater is a very serious problem. We study herein the mathematical model of this setting consisting of the Stokes equations in the fluid region coupled with the Darcy equations in the porous medium, coupled across the interface by the Beavers--Joseph--Saffman conditions. We prove existence of weak solutions and give a complete analysis of a finite element scheme which allows a simulation of the coupled problem to be uncoupled into steps involving porous media and fluid flow subproblems. This is important because there are many "legacy" codes available which have been optimized for uncoupled porous media and fluid flow.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1137/S0036142901392766
SIAM J. Numerical Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
fluid flow
Darcy's law,Coupling,Mathematical analysis,Weak solution,Finite element method,Fluid dynamics,Darcy–Weisbach equation,Porous medium,Mathematics,Stokes flow
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
6
0036-1429
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
84
51.24
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
William J. Layton117072.49
Friedhelm Schieweck29654.94
Ivan Yotov3481103.38