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A posteriori error estimates and adaptive methods for convection dominated transport processes

Abstract

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In this thesis we derive robust a posteriori error estimates <br>for finite volume approximations of convection dominated nonlinear <br>transport problems. <br>Robustness means that the error estimates are uniform with respect to <br>vanishing diffusion coefficients. <br>The a posteriori error estimates give upper bounds for the error in the <br>L^1 norm between the exact solution and the approximate solution. <br>Hereby, the upper bounds only depend on computable constants and the <br>approximate solution itself. Therefore, the upper bound can be computed. <br>Using these theoretical results adaptive solution strategies are deduced, <br>implemented and tested for some model problems. <br>These adaptive techniques are applicable e.g. in two phase flow problems in <br>porous media or in the simulation of subsurface contaminant transport processes. <br>For two phase flow and density driven flow in porous media the applicability <br>is shown in several examples.

Author and committee

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  • Ohlberger, Mario
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  • Kröner, Dietmar

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2026-07-24
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Ohlberger, Mario. A posteriori error estimates and adaptive methods for convection dominated transport processes. https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/178