Global existence of strong solutions to a groundwater flow problem

DOI10.1007/S00033-020-01352-2MaRDI QIDQ2194004zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 25 August 2020

Published in ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03793

matrix decomposition groundwater flow De Giorgi iteration method

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Initial-boundary value problems for mixed-type systems of PDEs (35M33) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Abstract: In this paper we study the initial boundary value problem for the system

D e l t a v = u_{x_{1}}, u_{t} - m b o x d i v l e f t (l e f t ((a | m a t h b f q | + m) I + (b - a) f r a c m a t h b f q o t i m e s m a t h b f q | m a t h b f q | i g h t) a b l a u i g h t) = - a b l a u c d o t m a t h b f q

, where

m a t h b f q = (- v_{x_{2}}, v_{x_{1}})^{T}

,

m a t h b f q o t i m e s m a t h b f q = m a t h b f q m a t h b f q^{T}

. This problem has been proposed as a model for a fluid flowing through a porous medium under the influence of gravity and hydrodynamic dispersion. For each

T > 0

we obtain a so-called strong solution

(v, u)

in the function space

L^{i} n f t y (0, T; l e f t (W^{1, i n f t y} (O m e g a) i g h t)^{2})

, where

O m e g a

is a bounded domain in

m a t h b b R^{2}

. The key ingredient in our approach is the decomposition

A^{2} = m b o x t r (A) A - m b o x d e t (A) I

for any

2 i m e s 2

symmetric matrix

A

. By exploring this decomposition, we are able to derive an equation of parabolic type for the function

l e f t (l e f t ((a | m a t h b f q | + m) I + (b - a) f r a c m a t h b f q o t i m e s m a t h b f q | m a t h b f q | i g h t) a b l a u c d o t a b l a u i g h t)^{j}, j g e q 1

. With the aid of this equation we obtain a uniform bound for

a b l a u

.

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