Bound-Preserving Adaptive Time-Stepping Method with Energy Stability for Simulating Compressible Gas Flow in Poroelastic Media

Abstract

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical method to address a thermodynamically consistent gas flow model in porous media involving compressible gas and deformable rock. The accurate modeling of gas flow in porous media often poses significant challenges due to their inherent nonlinearity, the coupling between gas and rock dynamics, and the need to preserve physical principles such as mass conservation, energy dissipation and molar density boundedness. The system is further complicated by the need to balance computational efficiency with the accuracy and stability of the numerical scheme. To tackle these challenges, we adopt a stabilization approach that is able to preserve the original energy dissipation while achieving linear energy-stable numerical schemes. We also prove the convergence of the adopted linear iterative method. At each time step, the stabilization parameter is adaptively updated using a simple and explicit formula to ensure compliance with the original energy dissipation law. The proposed method uses adaptive time stepping to improve computational efficiency while maintaining solution accuracy and boundedness. The adaptive time step size is calculated explicitly at each iteration, ensuring stability and allowing for efficient handling of highly dynamic scenarios. A mixed finite element method combined with an upwind scheme is employed as spatial discretization to ensure mass conservation and stability. Finally, we conduct a series of numerical experiments to validate the performance and robustness of the proposed numerical method.