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Speaker: M. Sarkis

Affiliation: WPI and IMPA/Brazil

Talk Title: Finite element approximations of the Darcy's equation in random porous media

Invited by: George Karniadakis

Time: Oct. 23 2009 11 a.m.

Location: 182 George Street, Room 110

Abstract:

In this talk we consider a stochastic Darcy's pressure equation with random permeability and random right-hand side forcing term. I will discuss an infinity-dimensional Petrov-Galerkin framework to accommodate the lack of ellipticity and singular forcing terms. The framework unify both representations of permeability stochastic fields based on KL or on convolution kernels. We present continuous and discrete inf-sup conditions, well-posedness, a priori error estimations and numerical experiments.