Special Session 89: 

Semidiscrete finite element approximation and a-priori feedback strategy estimates for a two-scale pressure problem

Omar Richardson
Karlstad University
Sweden
Co-Author(s):    Martin Lind, Adrian Muntean
Abstract:
We consider a coupled micro-macro parabolic-elliptic system of partial differential equations (PDEs) modelling the interplay between two pressures in a gas-liquid mixture close to equilibrium that is filling a porous medium with distributed microstructures. We prove well-posedness for the space-discrete time-continuous problem using a semidiscrete Galerkin scheme. We obtain a priori error estimates and convergence rates for the discretized problem. Additionally, we design an a-priori feedback strategy that refines the mesh in a pre-computational stage to reduce the overall numerical error.