Well-Posedness of a fully coupled thermo-chemo-poroelastic system with applications to petroleum rock mechanics

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2017-05-24

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Malysheva, Tetyana
White, Luther W.

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Texas State University, Department of Mathematics

Abstract

We consider a system of fully coupled parabolic and elliptic equations constituting the general model of chemical thermo-poroelasticity for a fluid-saturated porous media. The main result of this paper is the developed well-posedness theory for the corresponding initial-boundary problem arising from petroleum rock mechanics applications. Using the proposed pseudo-decoupling method, we establish, subject to some natural assumptions imposed on matrices of diffusion coefficients, the existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on initial and boundary data of a weak solution to the problem. Numerical experiments confirm the applicability of the obtained well-posedness results for thermo-chemo-poroelastic models with real-data parameters.

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Parabolic-elliptic system, Poroelasticity, Thermo-poroelasticity, Thermo-chemo-poroelasticity, Existence, Uniqueness, Well-posedness

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Malysheva, T., & White, L. W. (2017). Well-Posedness of a fully coupled thermo-chemo-poroelastic system with applications to petroleum rock mechanics. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2017</i>(137), pp. 1-22.

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