Vanishing layer thickness limit of convection in multilayer porous media

Abstract

Within the Darcy-Boussinesq framework for convection in multilayered porous media, we investigate the singular limit in which the thickness of one layer tends to zero. We establish that the solution of the full system converges to that of the corresponding limiting model with one fewer layer. The convergence is established in two complementary senses: (i) strong $L^2$-convergence over arbitrary finite time intervals, and (ii) upper semi-continuity of the global attractors describing the large-time asymptotic behavior.

17 pages, 2 figures