High-order bound-preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods for wormhole propagation on triangular meshes
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2019
Abstract
© 2019 Elsevier Inc. Wormhole propagation, arising in petroleum engineering, is used to describe the distribution of acid and the increase of porosity in carbonate reservoir under dissolution of injected acid. The important physical features of porosity and acid concentration include their boundedness between 0 and 1, as well as the monotone increasing for porosity. How to keep these properties in the simulation is crucial to the robustness of the numerical algorithm. In this paper, we propose high-order bound-preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods to keep these important physical properties. The main technique is to introduce a new variable r to replace the original acid concentration and use a consistent flux pair to deduce a ghost equation such that the positive-preserving technique can be applied on both original and deduced equations. A high-order slope limiter is used to keep a polynomial upper bound which changes over time for r. Moreover, the high-order accuracy is attained by the flux limiter. Numerical examples are given to demonstrate the high-order accuracy and bound-preserving property of the numerical technique.
Publication Title
Journal of Computational Physics
Recommended Citation
Xu, Z.,
Yang, Y.,
&
Guo, H.
(2019).
High-order bound-preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods for wormhole propagation on triangular meshes.
Journal of Computational Physics,
390, 323-341.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2019.03.046
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