Initial-boundary layer associated with the nonlinear Darcy-Brinkman system (Q2349985)

The authors study the interaction of initial layer and boundary layer in the nonlinear Darcy-Brinkman system in the vanishing Darcy number limit. This represents a singular perturbation problem in fluid dynamics. The Darcy-Brinkman system can be viewed as an appropriately non-dimensionalized version of the volume-averaged Navier-Stokes equation. The main aim of this work is to study the convergence of the nonlinear Darcy-Brinkman system to the Darcy equation in the vanishing Darcy number limit. In particular, the authors show the existence of a function of corner layer type (so-called initial-boundary layer) in the solution of the nonlinear Darcy-Brinkman system. An approximate solution is constructed by the method of multiple scale expansions in space and in time. The optical convergence rate is established in various Sobolev norms via energy method.