Sequential Refinement Solver using Space-Time Domain Decomposition for Non-linear Multiphase Flow Problems

Abstract

Convergence failure and slow convergence rate are among the biggest challenges with solving the system of non-linear equations numerically. While using strictly small time steps sizes and unconditionally stable fully implicit scheme mitigate the problem, the computational load becomes enormous. We introduce a sequential local refinement scheme in space-time domain that improves convergence rate and prevents convergence failure while not restricting to small time step, thus boosting computational efficiency. We rely on the non-linear two-phase flow model. The algorithm starts by solving the coarsest mesh. Then regions with certain features such as saturation front is refined to the finest resolution sequentially. Such process prevents convergence failure. After each refinement, the solution from the previous mesh is used to estimate initial guess of the current mesh for faster convergence. Numerical results are presented to confirm accuracy of our algorithm as compared to the traditional fine time step approach. We also observe 5 times speedup in the runtime by using our algorithm.

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