Large deviations for the two-time-scale stochastic convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations

Abstract

The convective Brinkman-Forchheimer (CBF) equations are employed to characterize the motion of incompressible fluid in a saturated porous medium. This work investigates the small noise asymptotic of two-time-scale stochastic CBF equations in two and three dimensional bounded domains. More precisely, we establish a Wentzell-Freidlin type large deviation principle for stochastic partial differential equations that have slow and fast time-scales. The slow component is the stochastic CBF equations in two or three dimensions perturbed by a small multiplicative Gaussian noise, while the fast component is a stochastic reaction-diffusion equation with damping. The results are obtained by using a variational method (based on weak convergence approach) developed by Budhiraja and Dupuis, Khasminkii's time discretization approach and stopping time arguments. In particular, the findings from this study are also applicable to two-dimensional stochastic Navier-Stokes equations.