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Thermal flows in fractured porous media

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EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/m2an/2020087

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Fractured porous media; ε -domes; two-scale homogenized system; Darcy-Forchheimer law; Boussinesq approximation; Beavers– Joseph condition

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  1. International Network GDRI ECO-Math

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This study examines the thermal flow problem in fractured porous medium, involving incompressible filtration flow in porous matrix and viscous flow in fractures, with coupling through Saffman's variant of Beavers-Joseph condition. Existence and uniqueness properties are discussed, showing the appropriateness of using energy norm to describe Darcy-Forchheimer law. In the epsilon-periodic framework, a two-scale homogenized system governing their behavior in the limit where the Forchheimer effect vanishes is found, mainly modeling two coupled thermal flows.
We consider the thermal flow problem occuring in a fractured porous medium. The incompressible filtration flow in the porous matrix and the viscous flow in the fractures obey the Boussinesq approximation of Darcy-Forchheimer law and respectively, the Stokes system. They are coupled by the Saffman's variant of the Beavers-Joseph condition. Existence and uniqueness properties are presented. The use of the energy norm in describing the Darcy-Forchheimer law proves to be appropriate. In the epsilon-periodic framework, we find the two-scale homogenized system which governs their asymptotic behaviours when epsilon -> 0 and the Forchheimer effect vanishes. The limit problem is mainly a model of two coupled thermal flows, neither of them being incompressible.

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