Comparison of the single-phase and two-phase numerical model formulation for saturated-unsaturated groundwater flow

DOI10.1016/0045-7825(88)90190-9MaRDI QIDQ1094993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors P. A. Forsyth

Publication date 1988

Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0045-7825(88)90190-9

zbMATH Keywords

dam seepage problemsingle-phase formulation with a passive air phasetransient saturated-unsaturated two-dimensional ground-water flowtwo-phase air-water formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Review text

Two numerical methods are developed for transient saturated-unsaturated two-dimensional groundwater flow. One formulation uses the usual single- phase formulation with a passive air phase at constant pressure. The second model uses a full two-phase air-water formulation. The numerical results for both formulations are compared on some test problems. In some cases, the single-phase formulation and the two-phase formulations give greatly different results. This can be explained in terms of the fractional flow curve for the air-water system. The single-phase technique generally requires less computational work than the two-phase formulation, although there are some situations where the numerical performance of the single-phase formulation is very poor.

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