Abstract
For the groundwater flow problem (which corresponds to the Darcy flow model), we show how to produce a scheme with one unknown per element, starting from a mixed formulation discretized with the Raviart Thomas triangular elements of lowest order. The aim is here to obtain a new formulation with one unknown per element by elimination of the velocity variables q=−k grad P, without any restriction concerning the computation of the velocity field. In the first part, we describe the triangular mixed finite element method used for solving Darcy's and mass balance equations. In the second part, we study the elliptic–parabolic problem; we describe the new formulation of the problem in order to use mixed finite elements (MFE) with less unknowns without any specific numerical integration. Finally, we compare the computational effort of the MFE method with the new formulation for different triangulations using numerical experiments. In this work, we show that the new formulation can be seen as a general formulation which can be equivalent to the finite volume or the finite difference methods in some particular cases.
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