A fully homogenized model for incompressible two-phase flow in double porosity media. Issue 10 (2nd October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jurak, Mladen; Pankratov, Leonid; Vrbaški, Anja
• Is Part Of: Applicable analysis. Volume 95:Issue 10(2016)
• Page Start: 2280
• Page End: 2299
• Publication Date: 2016-10-02
• Subjects: homogenization -- incompressible -- two-phase flow -- double porosity media -- thin fractures; 35B27 -- 35K65 -- 35Q35 -- 74Q15 -- 76M50 -- 76S05; Mathematical analysis -- Periodicals; 515
• DOI: 10.1080/00036811.2015.1031221
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-6811

Abstract

Abstract : In this paper, we discuss a model describing the global behavior of the two-phase incompressible flow in fractured porous media. The fractured medium is regarded as a porous medium consisting of two superimposed continua, a connected fracture system, which is assumed to be thin of order, where being the relative fracture thickness, and an –periodic system of disjoint matrix blocks. We derive the global behavior of the fractured medium by passing to the limit as, taking into account that the permeability of the blocks is proportional to, while the permeability of the fractures is of order one and obtain the corresponding global –model, i.e. the homogenized model with the coefficients depending on the small parameter . In the –model, we linearize the cell problem in the matrix block and then by letting, we obtain the macroscopic model which does not depend on and, and is fully homogenized in the sense that all the coefficients are calculated in terms of given data and do not depend on the additional coupling or cell problems.