Study of three-dimensional boundary value problems of fluid filtration in an anisotropic porous medium (Q1711285)

Orthotropic 3D inhomogeneous porous media, with different permeabilities and a separation interface of Lyapunov class are studied. The flow is described by using generalized potentials \(\phi\), which are fundamental solutions of a canonical elliptic problem, obtained by using the nonsingular affine coordinate transformation (1.5). The first and second boundary value problems (\(\phi\) and the normal derivative of \(\phi\) given on exterior surface) are solved by some singular integral equations in the sense of principal value and Hadamard finite part. A weak singularity appears and inhomogeneous Fredholm type integrals of second type are used. In the references there should also be mentioned the books by \textit{Ştefan Gheorghiţă}, ``Capitole din teoria miscarilor in mediile poroase'' (Topics in porous media flows) (Romanian). Bucharest: Technical Publishing House (1957) and by \textit{Horia I. Ene} and \textit{Sorin Gogonea}, ``Probleme In teoria filtratiei'' (Problems in filtration theory) (Romanian). Bucharest: Publishing House of Romanian Academy (1973). Here the integral equations are also used in porous media flow and some exact solutions are obtained.