Convergence of a positive nonlinear control volume finite element scheme for an anisotropic seawater intrusion model with sharp interfaces

Abstract

AbstractWe study a sharp interface model in the context of seawater intrusion in an anisotropic unconfined aquifer. It is a degenerate parabolic system with cross‐diffusion modeling the flow of fresh and saltwater. We study a nonlinear control volume finite element scheme. This scheme ensures the nonnegativity of the discrete solution without any restriction on the transmissibility coefficients. Moreover, it also provides a control on the entropy. The existence of a discrete solution and the convergence of this scheme are obtained, based on nonlinear stability results.