Abstract This paper discusses a novel three field formulation for the Darcy-Forchheimer flow with a nonlinear viscosity depending on the temperature coupled with the heat equation. We show unique solvability of the variational problem by using; Galerkin method, Brouwer’s fixed point and some compactness properties. We propose and study in detail a finite element approximation. A priori error estimate is then derived and convergence is obtained. A solution technique is formulated to solve the nonlinear problem and numerical experiments that validate the theoretical findings are presented.
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