Application of homogenization theory related to Stokes flow in porous media. (Q1775168)

Stokes flow in porous media is considered. Known theoretical results are applied to obtain some homogenization results for the flow in question. The core of the paper is in numerical treatment of homogenization which is known to be practically impossible to attack directly for small mesh values. To this purpose a weak approximation of the original problem is constructed which has desired stability properties. Several examples of usefulness of the presented results are given.