A reduced basis method for Darcy flow systems that ensures local mass conservation by using exact discrete complexes

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Abstract: A solution technique is proposed for flows in porous media that guarantees local conservation of mass. We first compute a flux field to balance the mass source and then exploit exact co-chain complexes to generate a solenoidal correction. A reduced basis method based on proper orthogonal decomposition is employed to construct the correction and we show that mass balance is ensured regardless of the quality of the reduced basis approximation. The method is directly applicable to mixed finite and virtual element methods, among other structure-preserving discretization techniques, and we present the extension to Darcy flow in fractured porous media.


In this paper, a three-step solution procedure is proposed for Darcy flow systems based on the exact de Rham complex. The mass conservation equation is first solved and the flux field is subsequently corrected by adding a solenoidal vector field. The computational cost in constructing the correction is reduced by applying reduced basis methods based on proper orthogonal decomposition. In the third step, the pressure field is constructed with discretization methods capable of conserving mass locally. The procedure was extended to the setting of Darcy flow in fractured porous media by employing mixed-dimensional differential operators.



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