Pressure-correction projection method for modelling the incompressible fluid flow in porous media

Abstract

Abstract This work is dedicated to the pressure-correction projection method for the volume-averaged Navier–Stokes system for porous media. A set of parameters controlling the presence of inertia and viscosity is introduced into the system. Switching parameters allows us to reduce the system to either the Brinkman system or the Darcy equation. Considering the jump in the parameters between mesh cells allows capturing the contact of media of different types, such as free-flow and porous media flow. We apply Chorin’s projection method to decouple the system. The splitting of the system yields a momentum conservation equation and an anisotropic pressure correction equation. We propose a combination of collocated finite-volume methods to solve the problem.