Global estimates for generalized Forchheimer flows of slightly compressible fluids

Quasilinear parabolic equations (35K59) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: This paper is focused on the generalized Forchheimer flows of slightly compressible fluids in porous media. They are reformulated as a degenerate parabolic equation for the pressure. The initial boundary value problem is studied with time-dependent Dirichlet boundary data. The estimates up to the boundary and for all time are derived for the

L^{i} n f t y

-norm of the pressure, its gradient and time derivative. Large-time estimates are established to be independent of the initial data. Particularly, thanks to the special structure of the pressure's nonlinear equation, the global gradient estimates are obtained in a relatively simple way, avoiding complicated calculations and a prior requirement of H"older estimates.

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The authors consider generalized Forchheimer flows of compressible fluids in porous media when the Darcy law is replaced by its nonlinear analogue (e.g. depending on the Reynolds number). The solvability of the initial boundary problem with time dependent boundary data is studied for its reformulation as a degenerate parabolic equation for the pressure. The estimates of the pressure and its first derivatives are derived thanks to a special structure of that equation. Large-time estimates are also proved.

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