An efficient S-DDM iterative approach for compressible contamination fluid flows in porous media

In this paper, we develop an efficient splitting domain decomposition method (S-DDM) for compressible contamination fluid flows in porous media over multiple block-divided sub-domains by combining the non-overlapping domain decomposition, splitting, linearization and extrapolation techniques. The proposed S-DDM iterative approach divides the large domain into multiple block sub-domains. In each time interval, the S-DDM scheme is applied to solve the water head equation, in which an efficient local multilevel scheme is used for computing the values of water head on the interfaces of sub-domains, and the splitting implicit scheme is used for computing the interior values of water head in sub-domains; and the S-DDM scheme is then proposed to solve the concentration equation by combining the upstream volume technique. Numerical experiments are performed and analyzed to illustrate the efficiency of the S-DDM iterative approach for simulating compressible contamination fluid flows in porous media. The developed method takes the excellent attractive advantages of both the non-overlapping domain decomposition and the splitting technique, and reduces computational complexities, large memory requirements and long computational durations. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.