An improved partitioned time stepping method based on modified characteristic FEM for the evolutionary dual-porosity-Navier-Stokes model (Q6569173)

In the paper, the authors study characteristic finite element method combined with the partitioned time stepping. They analyse dual-porosity-Navier-Stokes model coupled with the Beavers-Joseph interface condition. The original coupling problem is decoupled into three subproblems and two-level decoupling is implemented to simplify the original systems.\N\NFirst, the matrix and microfracture equations on the half-time steps in the dualporosity media are calculated. Second, the nonlinear convection term in the Navier-Stokes equations are approximated by the modified characteristic finite element method. Applying induction approach the convergence of decoupling algorithm is shown. Extensive numerical simulations illustrate the reliability of the proposed decoupling algorithm.