A cell centered Galerkin method for miscible displacement in heterogeneous porous media
Maurice S. Fabien
Published: 2025/9/18
Abstract
In this paper we present a cell centered Galerkin (CCG) method applied to miscible displacement problems in heterogeneous porous media. The CCG approach combines concepts from finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods to arrive at an efficient lowest-order approximation (one unknown per cell). We demonstrate that the CCG method can be defined using classical DG weak formulations, only requires one unknown per cell, and is able to deliver comparable accuracy and improved efficiency over traditional higher-order interior penalty DG methods. In addition, we prove that the CCG method for a model Poisson problem gives rise to a inverse-positive matrix in 1D. A plethora of computational experiments in 2D and 3D showcase the effectiveness of the CCG method for highly heterogeneous flow and transport problems in porous media. Comparisons between CCG and classical DG methods are included.