A comparison study of spatial and temporal schemes for flow and transport problems in fractured media with large parameter contrasts on small length scales

verfasst von
Wansheng Gao, Insa Neuweiler, Thomas Wick
Abstract

In this work, various high-accuracy numerical schemes for transport problems in fractured media are further developed and compared. Specifically, to capture sharp gradients and abrupt changes in time, schemes with low order of accuracy are not always sufficient. To this end, discontinuous Galerkin up to order two, Streamline Upwind Petrov-Galerkin, and finite differences, are formulated. The resulting schemes are solved with sparse direct numerical solvers. Moreover, time discontinuous Galerkin methods of order one and two are solved monolithically and in a decoupled fashion, respectively, employing finite elements in space on locally refined meshes. Our algorithmic developments are substantiated with one regular fracture network and several further configurations in fractured media with large parameter contrasts on small length scales. Therein, the evaluation of the numerical schemes and implementations focuses on three key aspects, namely accuracy, monotonicity, and computational costs.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Umweltphysik im Bauwesen
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Computational geosciences
Band
28
Seiten
883–905
Anzahl der Seiten
23
ISSN
1420-0597
Publikationsdatum
10.2024
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Angewandte Informatik, Computer in den Geowissenschaften, Computational Mathematics, Theoretische Informatik und Mathematik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-024-10293-y (Zugang: Offen)