STABILIZED MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR TRANSIENT DARCY FLOW

Abstract

Darcy flow is a steady-state model for laminar flow of a fluid through a porous medium. The present work proposes an extended model of laminar Darcy flow by introducing dynamic pressure and velocity to the classical formulation. The solution of the proposed time-space model is attained by discretizing the problem with a stabilized mixed Galerkin method in space and a forward Euler method in time. The resulting matrix equation is well-posed and is solved using the conjugate gradient (CG) method. The error analysis of the numerical solutions confirms convergence to the actual model.