Authors: Henning, Patrick
Ohlberger, Mario
Schweizer, Ben
Title: Homogenization of the degenerate two-phase flow equations
Language (ISO): en
Abstract: We analyze two-phase flow in highly heterogeneous media. Problems related to the degeneracy of the permeability coefficient functions are treated with a new concept of weighted solutions. Instead of the pressure variables we formulate the problem with the weighted pressure function ψ, which is obtained as the product of permeability and pressure. We perform the homogenization limit and obtain effective equations in the form of a two-scale limit system. The nonlinear effective system is of the classical form in the non-degenerate case. In the degenerate case, the two-scale system uses again a weighted pressure variable. Our approach allows to work without the global pressure function. Even though internal interfaces are included, our approach provides the homogenization limit without any smallness assumptions on permeabilities or capillary pressures.
Subject Headings: degenerate permeability
homogenization
two-phase flow
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2003/29407
http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-4803
Issue Date: 2012-04-02
Appears in Collections:Preprints der Fakultät für Mathematik
Schweizer, Ben Prof. Dr.

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