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Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Thermo-Poroelastic Systems

Numerical Analysis 2025-06-24 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We propose a high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) formulation for the fully dynamic, linear thermo-poroelasticity problem. The governing equations are formulated as a first-order hyperbolic system incorporating solid and fluid velocities, heat flux, effective stress, pore pressure, and temperature as state variables. We establish well-posedness of the continuous problem using semigroup theory and develop an energy-consistent HDG discretization. The method exploits computational advantages of HDG-including locality and static condensation-while maintaining energy conservation for the coupled system. We establish an hphp-convergence analysis and support it with comprehensive numerical experiments, confirming the theoretical rates and showcasing the method's effectiveness for thermo-poroelastic wave propagation in heterogeneous media.

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@article{arxiv.2506.17978,
  title  = {Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Thermo-Poroelastic Systems},
  author = {Salim Meddahi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17978},
  year   = {2025}
}