Gradient Discretization of Hybrid Dimensional Darcy Flows in Fractured Porous Media This article deals with the discretization of hybrid dimensional model of Darcy flow in fractured porous media. These models couple the flow in the fractures represented as the surfaces of codimension one with the flow in the surrounding matrix. The convergence analysis is carried out in the framework of Gradient schemes which accounts for a large family of conforming and nonconforming discretizations. The Vertex Approximate Gradient (VAG) scheme and the Hybrid Finite Volume (HFV) scheme are applied to such models and are shown to verify the Gradient scheme framework. Our theoretical results are confirmed by a few numerical experiments performed both on tetrahedral and hexahedral meshes in heterogeneous isotropic and anisotropic media.

Positivitypreserving finite volume scheme for compressible twophase flows in anisotropic porous media : the densities are depending on the physical pressures Abstract   We are concerned with the approximation of solutions to a compressible twophase flow model in porous media thanks to an enhanced control volume finite element discretization. The originality of the methodology consists in treating the case where the densities are depending on their own pressures without any major restriction neither on the permeability tensor nor on the mesh. Contrary to the ideas of  23 , the point of the current scheme relies on a phasebyphase xe2x80x9csubxe2x80x9dunpwinding approach so that we can recover the coercivitylike property. It allows on a second place for the preservation of the physical bounds on the discrete saturation. The convergence of the numerical scheme is therefore performed using classical compactness arguments. Numerical experiments are presented to exhibit the efficiency and illustrate the qualitative behavior of the implemented method.