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Unsaturated subsurface flow with surface water and nonlinear in- and outflow conditions

Heiko Berninger,Mario Ohlberger,O. Sander,K. Smetana

Published 2013 in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

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We analytically and numerically analyze groundwater flow in a homogeneous soil described by the Richards equation, coupled to surface water represented by a set of ordinary dierential equations (ODE’s) on parts of the domain boundary, and with nonlinear outflow conditions of Signorini’s type. The coupling of the partial dierential equation (PDE) and the ODE’s is given by nonlinear Robin boundary conditions. This article provides two major new contributions regarding these infiltration conditions. First, an existence result for the continuous coupled problem is established with the help of a regularization technique. Second, we analyze and validate a solver-friendly discretization of the coupled problem based on an implicit‐explicit time discretization and on finite elements in space. The discretized PDE leads to convex spatial minimization problems which can be solved eciently by monotone multigrid. Numerical experiments are provided using the Dune numerics framework.

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