Well-Posedness and Discretization for a Class of Models for Mixed-Dimensional Problems with High-Dimensional Gap

DOI10.1137/20M1362541MaRDI QIDQ5164710zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Erlend Hodneland, X. Hu, J. M. Nordbotten

Publication date 12 November 2021

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12273

zbMATH Keywords

finite volume methodfinite-element methodmixed-dimensional problemsmixed-formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Finite volume methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N08) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N22) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Physiological flows (76Z05) Physiological flow (92C35)

Abstract: In this work, we illustrate the underlying mathematical structure of mixed-dimensional models arising from the composition of graphs and continuous domains. Such models are becoming popular in applications, in particular, to model the human vasculature. We first discuss the model equations in the strong form which describes the conservation of mass and Darcy's law in the continuum and network as well as the coupling between them. By introducing proper scaling, we propose a weak form that avoids degeneracy. Well-posedness of the weak form is shown through standard Babuv{s}ka-Brezzi theory. We also develop the mixed formulation finite-element method and prove its well-posedness. A mass-lumping technique is introduced to derive the two-point flux approximation type discretization as well, due to its importance in applications. Based on the Babuv{s}ka-Brezzi theory, error estimates can be obtained for both the finite-element scheme and the TPFA scheme. We also discuss efficient linear solvers for discrete problems. Finally, we present some numerical examples to verify the theoretical results and demonstrate the robustness of our proposed discretization schemes.

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