Title:         Locally Conservative Coupling of Stokes and Darcy Flows

Authors:       Beatrice Riviere and Ivan Yotov

Source:        SIAM J. Numer. Anal. vol. 42 no. 5 (2005) 1959--1977 

Status:        Published

Abstract: A locally conservative numerical method for solving the
coupled Stokes and Darcy flows problem is formulated and analyzed. The
approach employs the mixed finite element method for the Darcy region
and the discontinuous Galerkin method for the Stokes region. A
discrete inf-sup condition and optimal error estimates are derived.