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Vertical compaction in a faulted sedimentary basin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2003
Abstract
In this paper, we consider a 2D mathematical modelling of the verticalcompaction effect in a water saturated sedimentary basin. This model isdescribed by the usual conservation laws, Darcy's law, the porosity as afunction of the vertical component of the effective stress and theKozeny-Carman tensor, taking into account fracturation effects. This modelleads to study the time discretization of a nonlinear system ofpartial differential equations. The existence is obtained by a fixed-pointargument. The uniqueness proof, by Holmgren's method, leads to work out a linear, strongly coupled, system of partial differential equations andboundary conditions.
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- Research Article
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- ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , March 2003 , pp. 373 - 388
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- © EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2003
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