Integral potential method for a transmission problem with Lipschitz interface in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\) for the Stokes and Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman PDE systems (Q518965)

The main goal of the paper is to investigate a transmission problem with Lipschitz interface in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) for the linear Stokes and the nonlinear Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman PDE systems. The normalized Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman system \[ \Delta u -\alpha u-k|u|u-\beta(u\cdot\nabla)u-\nabla\pi=f,\quad \mathrm{div}\,u=0, \] which describes flows through porous media saturated with viscous incompressible fluids, where the inertia of such a fluid is not negligible, is given in a bounded Lipschitz domain \(\Omega\) with connected boundary. The constants \(\alpha,k,\beta > 0\) are determined by the physical properties of such a porous medium. In the complementary domain \(\mathbb{R}^3\backslash \overline{\Omega}\) the normalized Stokes system \[ \Delta u -\nabla\pi=f,\quad \mathrm{div}\,u=0, \] is considered. The authors first prove the well-posedness of a linear Poisson problem of transmission type for the Stokes system and the normalized Brinkman system \[ \Delta u -\alpha u-\nabla\pi=f,\quad \mathrm{div}\,u=0,\quad \alpha>0, \] in two complementary Lipschitz domains with data in weighted Sobolev spaces. The result has been obtained by using an integral layer potential method. Then they exploit a layer potential method for the Stokes and Brinkman systems combined with the fixed point theorem in order to show the desired existence and uniqueness results for a boundary value problem of transmission type for the Stokes and Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman systems in two complementary Lipschitz domains with data in weighted Sobolev spaces, whenever the given data are suitably small in some \(L^2\) based Sobolev spaces.