MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS FOR COMPRESSIBLE MISCIBLE DISPLACEMENT MODELS IN POROUS MEDIA

We discuss a three-dimensional displacement model of one miscible compressible fluid by another in a porous medium. The motion is modeled by a nonlinear system of parabolic type coupling the pressure and the concentration. We give an existence result of weak solutions for a model with diffusion and dispersion, using the Schauder fixed point theorem. We also study a model in the absence of diffusion and dispersion. The system becomes of parabolic-hyperbolic type, the existence of global weak solutions is then obtained through a compensated compactness argument.