Discretization of an Unsteady Flow Through a Porous Solid Modeled by Darcy's Equations

Abstract

The system of unsteady Darcy's equations considered here models the time-dependent flow of an incompressible fluid such as water in a rigid porous medium. We propose a discretization of this problem that relies on a backward Euler's scheme for the time variable and finite elements for the space variables. We prove a priori error estimates that justify the optimal convergence properties of the discretization and a posteriori error estimates that allow for an efficient adaptivity strategy both for the time steps and the meshes.

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