WIAS Preprint No. 2384, (2017)

Unsaturated deformable porous media flow with phase transition



Authors

  • Krejčí, Pavel
    ORCID: 0000-0002-7579-6002
  • Rocca, Elisabetta
    ORCID: 0000-0002-9930-907X
  • Sprekels, Jürgen
    ORCID: 0009-0000-0618-8604

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 76S05 80A22 35Q74

Keywords

  • Porous media flow, phase transition, initial-boundary value problem

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2384

Abstract

In the present paper, a continuum model is introduced for fluid flow in a deformable porous medium, where the fluid may undergo phase transitions. Typically, such problems arise in modeling liquid-solid phase transformations in groundwater flows. The system of equations is derived here from the conservation principles for mass, momentum, and energy and from the Clausius-Duhem inequality for entropy. It couples the evolution of the displacement in the matrix material, of the capillary pressure, of the absolute temperature, and of the phase fraction. Mathematical results are proved under the additional hypothesis that inertia effects and shear stresses can be neglected. For the resulting highly nonlinear system of two PDEs, one ODE and one ordinary differential inclusion with natural initial and boundary conditions, existence of global in time solutions is proved by means of cut-off techniques and suitable Moser-type estimates.

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