Darcy's laws for non-stationary viscous fluid flow in a thin porous medium

Abstract

We consider a non-stationary Stokes system in a thin porous medium Ωε of thickness ε which is perforated by periodically solid cylinders of size aε. We are interested here to give the limit behavior when ε goes to zero. To do so, we apply an adaptation of the unfolding method. Time-dependent Darcy’s laws are rigorously derived from this model depending on the comparison between aε and ε.