A mixed multiscale finite element method for elliptic problems with oscillating coefficients

Chen, Zhiming; Hou, Thomas

doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-02-01441-2

A mixed multiscale finite element method for elliptic problems with oscillating coefficients
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by Zhiming Chen and Thomas Y. Hou;

Math. Comp. 72 (2003), 541-576

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-02-01441-2

Published electronically: June 28, 2002

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Abstract:

The recently introduced multiscale finite element method for solving elliptic equations with oscillating coefficients is designed to capture the large-scale structure of the solutions without resolving all the fine-scale structures. Motivated by the numerical simulation of flow transport in highly heterogeneous porous media, we propose a mixed multiscale finite element method with an over-sampling technique for solving second order elliptic equations with rapidly oscillating coefficients. The multiscale finite element bases are constructed by locally solving Neumann boundary value problems. We provide a detailed convergence analysis of the method under the assumption that the oscillating coefficients are locally periodic. While such a simplifying assumption is not required by our method, it allows us to use homogenization theory to obtain the asymptotic structure of the solutions. Numerical experiments are carried out for flow transport in a porous medium with a random log-normal relative permeability to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method.

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