TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of a Second-Order, Unconditionally Stable, Partitioned Method for the Evolutionary Stokes-Darcy Model AU - Michaela Kubacki & Marina Moraiti JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 4 SP - 704 EP - 730 PY - 2015 DA - 2015/12 SN - 12 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/508.html KW - Stokes, Darcy, groundwater, surface water, partitioned, decoupled, second-order accuracy, unconditional stability, asymptotic stability. AB -

We propose and analyze a partitioned numerical method for the fully evolutionary Stokes-Darcy equations that model the coupling between surface and groundwater flows. The proposed method uncouples the surface from the groundwater flow by using the implicit-explicit combination of the Crank-Nicolson and Leapfrog methods for the discretization in time with added stabilization terms. We prove that the method is asymptotically, unconditionally stable — requiring no time step condition — and second-order accurate in time with optimal rates in space. We verify the method's unconditional stability and second-order accuracy numerically.