Upwind finite difference method for miscible oil and water displacement problem with moving boundary values

The research of the miscible oil and water displacement problem with moving boundary values is of great value to the history of oil-gas transport and accumulation in the basin evolution as well as to the rational evaluation in prospecting and exploiting oil-gas resources. The mathematical model can be described as a coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations with moving boundary values. For the twodimensional bounded region, the upwind finite difference schemes are proposed. Some techniques, such as the calculus of variations, the change of variables, and the theory of a priori estimates, are used. The optimal orderl2-norm estimates are derived for the errors in the approximate solutions. The research is important both theoretically and practically for the model analysis in the field, the model numerical method, and the software development.

LARGE TIME STEP GENERALIZATION OF RANDOM CHOICE FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR HYPERBOLIC CONSERVATION LAWS

A natural generalization of random choice finite difference scheme of Harten and Lax for Courant number larger than 1 is obtained. We handle interactions between neighboring Riemann solvers by linear superposition of their conserved quantities. We show consistency of the scheme for arbitrarily large Courant numbers. For scalar problems the scheme is total variation diminishing.A brief discussion is given for entropy condition.

The Modified Upwind Finite Difference Fractional Steps Method for Compressible Two-phase Displacement Problem

For compressible two-phase displacement problem,the modified upwind finite difference fractionalsteps schemes are put forward.Some techniques,such as calculus of variations,commutative law of multiplicationof difference operators,decomposition of high order difference operators,the theory of prior estimates and tech-niques are used.Optimal order estimates in L^2 norm are derived for the error in the approximate solution.Thismethod has already been applied to the numerical simulation of seawater intrusion and migration-accumulationof oil resources.

An Upwind Mixed Finite Volume Element-fractional Step Method and Convergence Analysis for Three-dimensional Compressible Contamination Treatment from Nuclear Waste

In this paper the authors discuss a numerical simulation problem of three-dimensional compressible contamination treatment from nuclear waste. The mathematical model, a nonlinear convection-diffusion system of four PDEs, determines four major physical unknowns: the pressure, the concentrations of brine and radionuclide, and the temperature. The pressure is solved by a conservative mixed finite volume element method, and the computational accuracy is improved for Darcy velocity. Other unknowns are computed by a composite scheme of upwind approximation and mixed finite volume element. Numerical dispersion and nonphysical oscillation are eliminated, and the convection-dominated diffusion problems are solved well with high order computational accuracy. The mixed finite volume element is conservative locally, and get the objective functions and their adjoint vector functions simultaneously. The conservation nature is an important character in numerical simulation of underground fluid. Fractional step difference is introduced to solve the concentrations of radionuclide factors, and the computational work is shortened significantly by decomposing a three-dimensional problem into three successive one-dimensional problems. By the theory and technique of a priori estimates of differential equations, we derive an optimal order estimates in L2norm. Finally, numerical examples show the effectiveness and practicability for some actual problems.