Homogenization of the inviscid incompressible fluid flow through a 2D porous medium

Citation
A. Mikelic et L. Paoli, Homogenization of the inviscid incompressible fluid flow through a 2D porous medium, P AM MATH S, 127(7), 1999, pp. 2019-2028
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics
Journal title
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
ISSN journal
00029939 → ACNP
Volume
127
Issue
7
Year of publication
1999
Pages
2019 - 2028
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9939(199907)127:7<2019:HOTIIF>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
We consider the non-stationary incompressible Euler equations in a 2D porou s medium. We suppose a periodic porous medium, with the period proportional to the characteristic pore size epsilon and with connected fluid part. The ow is subject to an external force, corresponding to an in ow. We start fr om an initial irrotational velocity and prove that the effective filtration velocity satisfies a transient filtration law. It has similarities with Da rcy's law, but it now connects the time derivative of the filtration veloci ty with the pressure gradient. The viscosity does not appear in the filtrat ion law any more and the permeability tensor is determined through auxiliar y problems of decomposition type. Using the limit problem, we construct the correction for the fluid velocity and prove that C-1([0, T]; L-2(Ohm)(2))- norm of the error is of order epsilon. Similarly, we estimate the differenc e between the fluid pressure and its correction in C([0, T]; L-1(Ohm)) as C epsilon.