Abstract
We study the process of two‐phase flow in thin porous media domains of Brinkman type. This is generally described by a model of coupled, mixed‐type differential equations of fluids' saturation and pressure. To reduce the model complexity, different approaches that utilize the thin geometry of the domain have been suggested. We focus on a reduced model that is formulated as a single nonlocal evolution equation of saturation. It is derived by applying standard asymptotic analysis to the dimensionless coupled model; however, a rigid mathematical derivation is still lacking. In this paper, we prove that the reduced model is the analytical limit of the coupled two‐phase flow model as the geometrical parameter of domain's width–length ratio tends to zero. Precisely, we prove the convergence of weak solutions for the coupled model to a weak solution for the reduced model as the geometrical parameter approaches zero.
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