Conservation laws with discontinuous flux appears in the models of two phase flow in porous media, traffic flow with discontinuous road surface, clarifier thickener models of continuous sedimentation, enhanced oil recovery process etc. In this talk we begin with an introduction to both theoretical and numerical aspects of scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux (CL-DF)[1, 2, 4, 6]. Apart from the basic difficulties for the mathematical analysis, this discussion include the convergence analysis of a second order scheme to the physically relevant (entropy) solution[3]. We continue the discussion with the applications of CL-DF to the system of non strictly hyperbolic partial differential equations, where we propose an efficient numerical method which overcomes the difficulties in the discretization [7]. Together with the stability analysis, this method is applied to a system of equations which models the multicomponent polymer flooding problem of enhanced oil recovery process. In the latter half we discuss a high order numerical method of discontinuous Galerkin scheme applied to a coupled two phase flow-transport problem in the context of discontinuous flux [5]. Apart from this, prior to the summary and future work we discuss about the instability issue which arises in the Buckley-Leverett problem[8].References[1] Adimurthi, J. Jaffre, G. D. Veerappa Gowda, Godunov-type methods for conservation laws with a flux function discontinuous in space, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 42(2004) 179-208.[2] Adimurthi, G. D. Veerappa Gowda, Conservation laws with discontinuous flux, J.Math. Kyoto Univ. 43 (1) (2003) 27-70.[3] Adimurthi, K. Sudarshan Kumar, G. D. Veerappa Gowda, Second order schemefor scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux, App. Numer. Math. 80 (2014)46-64.[4] R. B¨urger, K.H. Karlsen, J.D. Towers, An Engquist-Osher-type scheme for conservation laws with discontinuous flux adapted to flux connections, SIAM J. Numer.Anal. 47 (2009), 1684-1712.[5] R. B¨urger, S. Kumar, K. Sudarshan Kumar, R. Ruiz-Baier, Discontinuous approximation of viscous two phase flow in heterogeneous porous media, J. Comput.Phys. 321 (2016), 126-150.[6] T. Gimse, N. H. Risebro, Solution of the Cauchy Problem for a conservation lawwith discontinuous flux function, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 23 (1992), 635-648.[7] K. Sudarshan Kumar, C. Praveen, G.D. Veerappa Gowda, A finite volume methodfor a two-phase multicomponent polymer flooding, J. Comput. Phys. 275 (2014)667–695.[8] H. P. Langtangen, A. Tveito, R. Winther, Instability of Buckley-Leverett Flow ina Heterogeneous Medium, Transp. Porous Media, 9 (1992) 165-185.
Venue
SMS seminar hall
Speaker
Sudarshan Kumar
Affiliation
University of Concepcion, Chile
Title
On conservation laws with discontinuous flux