Singular limit of a two-phase flow problem in porous medium as the air viscosity tends to zero

DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2012.5.93MaRDI QIDQ428435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marie Henry, Danielle Hilhorst, Robert Eymard

Publication date 22 June 2012

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4003

zbMATH Keywords

singular limitexistence of weak solutionsdegenerate parabolic-elliptic systemtwo phase flow in porous media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30) Second-order parabolic systems (35K40) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05)

Abstract: In this paper we consider a two-phase flow problem in porous media and study its singular limit as the viscosity of the air tends to zero; more precisely, we prove the convergence of subsequences to solutions of a generalized Richards model.

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