Analysis of discontinuous Galerkin methods for multicomponent reactive transport problems (Q2458539)

The authors formulate the primal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes, including the Oden-Babuska-Baumann version of DG (OBB-DG), for solving multicomponent reactive transport with a single flowing phase and possibly multiple stationary phases in porous media. A cut-off operator is introduced in the discontinuous Galerkin schemes to ensure convergence for general nonlinear kinetic chemistry. Using the information of chemical stoichiometry, an efficient approach is proposed for a special case of multicomponent reactive transport without immobile species. Error estimates in the \(L^{2}(H^{1})\) norm for concentrations are derived for the OBB-DG scheme, which are optimal in \(h\) and nearly optimal in \(p\).