Error estimates of local discontinuous Galerkin method with implicit-explicit Runge Kutta for two-phase miscible flow in porous media

Abstract

Two-phase miscible flow in porous media is described by a coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, we develop and analyze the fully discrete local discontinuous Galerkin method coupled with the implicit-explicit Runge Kutta (IMEX-RK) method for the problems. Second-order time discretization scheme in two adjacent time layer can be obtained with the IMEX-RK method. For the temporal-spatial discretization schemes, we give the optimal convergence analysis for both the pressure and concentration in L2-norm. We present several numerical examples for two-phase miscible flow problem to demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our method.