A Reduced Basis Method for Darcy flow systems that ensures local mass conservation by using exact discrete complexes

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Geosciences/Protection of Land and Water Resources
Code:
37/2022
Title:
A Reduced Basis Method for Darcy flow systems that ensures local mass conservation by using exact discrete complexes
Date:
Tuesday 31st May 2022
Author(s):
Boon, W. M.; Fumagalli, A.
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Abstract:
A solution technique is proposed for flows in porous media that guarantees local conservation of mass. We first compute a flux field to balance the mass source and then exploit exact co-chain complexes to generate a solenoidal correction. A reduced basis method based on proper orthogonal decomposition is employed to construct the correction and we show that mass balance is ensured regardless of the quality of the reduced basis approximation. The method is directly applicable to mixed finite and virtual element methods, among other structure-preserving discretization techniques, and we present the extension to Darcy flow in fractured porous media.