Title
A Global Jacobian Method for Mortar Discretizations of a Fully Implicit Two-Phase Flow Model.
Abstract
We consider a fully implicit formulation for two-phase flow in a porous medium with capillarity, gravity, and compressibility in three dimensions. The method is implicit in time and uses the multiscale mortar mixed finite element method for a spatial discretization in a nonoverlapping domain decomposition context. The interface conditions between subdomains are enforced in terms of Lagrange multiplier variables defined on a mortar space. The novel approach in this work is to linearize the coupled system of subdomain and mortar variables simultaneously to form a global Jacobian. This algorithm is shown to be more efficient and robust compared to previous algorithms that relied on two separate nested linearizations of subdomain and interface variables. We also examine various upwinding methods for accurate integration of phase mobility terms near subdomain interfaces. Numerical tests illustrate the computational benefits of this scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1137/140952922
MULTISCALE MODELING & SIMULATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
global linearization,two-phase flow,porous media flow,nonoverlapping domain decomposition,multiscale method,mortar finite element,mixed finite element
Discretization,Mathematical optimization,Mortar methods,Jacobi method,Jacobian matrix and determinant,Mathematical analysis,Lagrange multiplier,Upwind scheme,Mathematics,Domain decomposition methods,Mixed finite element method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12
4
1540-3459
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.67
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benjamin Ganis1272.92
Kundan Kumar2133.63
Gergina Pencheva31239.70
Mary F. Wheeler4748117.66
Ivan Yotov5481103.38