Title: Global-in-time domain decomposition methods for the coupled Stokes and Darcy flows

Abstract: In many engineering and biological applications (e.g., groundwater flow problems, flows in vuggy porous media, industrial filtrations, biofluid-organ interaction and cardiovascular flows), the Stokes-Darcy system is used to model the interaction of fluid flow with porous media flow, where the Stokes equations represent an incompressible fluid, and the Darcy equations represent a flow through a porous medium. The time scales in the Stokes and Darcy regions could be largely different, thus it is inefficient to use the same time step throughout the entire spatial domain.

In this talk, we present decoupling iterative algorithms based on domain decomposition for the time-dependent Stokes-Darcy model, in which different time step sizes can be used in the flow region and in the porous medium. The coupled system is formulated as a space-time interface problem based on either physical interface conditions or equivalent Robin-Robin interface conditions. Such an interface problem is solved iteratively by a Krylov subspace method (e.g., GMRES) which involves at each iteration parallel solution of time-dependent Stokes and Darcy problems. Consequently, local discretizations in both space and time can be used to efficiently handle multiphysics systems with discontinuous parameters. Numerical experiments with nonconforming time grids are considered to illustrate the performance of the proposed methods.