Stokes-Darcy boundary integral solutions using preconditioners

  • Authors:
  • Yassine Boubendir;Svetlana Tlupova

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, University Heights, Newark, NJ ...;Department of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 323 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, University Heights, Newark, NJ ...

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In a system where a free fluid flow is coupled to flow in a porous medium, different PDEs are solved simultaneously in two subdomains. We consider steady Stokes equations in the free region, coupled across a fixed interface to Darcy equations in the porous substrate. Recently, the numerical solution of this system was obtained using the boundary integral formulation combined with a regularization-correction procedure. The correction process also results in the improvement of the condition number of the linear system. In this paper, an appropriate preconditioner based on the singular part of corrections is introduced to improve the convergence of a Krylov subspace method applied to solve the integral formulation.