Int. J. Numer. Anal. Mod., 5 (2008), pp. 47-63.


Convergence of high order methods for miscible displacement

Yekaterina Epshteyn 1, Beatrice Riviére 2

1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
2 Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, 301 Thackeray, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Received by the editors September 24, 2007

Abstract

We derive error estimates for fully discrete scheme using primal discontinuous Galerkin discretization in space and backward Euler discretization in time. The estimates in the energy norm are optimal with respect to the mesh size and suboptimal with respect to the polynomial degree. The proposed scheme is of high order as polynomial approximations of pressure and concentration can take any degree. In addition, the method can handle different types of boundary conditions ana is well-suited for unstructured meshes.

AMS subject classifications: 35Q35, 65N30, 65N15, 76S05
Key words: flow; transport; porous media; miscible displacement; NIPG; SIPG; IIPG; h and p-version; fully discrete scheme

Email: rina10@andrew.cmu.edu (Y. Epshteyn), riviere@math.pitt.edu (B. Riviére)
 

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