Convergence analysis of a family of ELLAM schemes for a fully coupled model of miscible displacement in porous media (Q1719560)

The authors provide a gradient discretisation method-Eulerian Lagrangian localised adjoint method (GDM-ELLAM) framework for a strongly coupled system of elliptic-parabolic PDEs which models the miscible displacement of one fluid by another in a porous medium, and establish convergence of numerical schemes that fall under this framework. These schemes include, but are not limited to mixed finite element-ELLAM and hybrid mimetic mixed-ELLAM schemes. A complete convergence analysis is presented on the coupled system, using only weak regularity assumptions on the solution (which are satisfied in practical applications), and not relying on \(L^\infty\) bounds (which are extremely difficult to ensure at the discrete level given the anisotropic diffusion tensors and the general grids used in applications).