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The exact solution of Terzaghi's consolidation equation has further highlighted the limits of this theory in the one-dimensional field as, like Taylor's approximate solution, it overestimates the decay times of the phenomenon; on the other…
Terzaghi's one-dimensional consolidation equation simulates the visco-elastic behaviour of soils depending on the loads applied as it happens, for example, when foundation are laid and start carrying the weight of the structure. Its…
A numerical method for approximating weak solutions of an aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion is introduced. The numerical method consists of a stabilized finite element method together with a mass lumping technique and an extra…
We present a finite element discretisation to model the interaction between a poroelastic structure and an elastic medium. The consolidation problem considers fully coupled deformations across an interface, ensuring continuity of…
This article describes an optimal method (conflation) to consolidate data from different experiments, and illustrates the advantages of conflation by graphical examples involving gaussian input distributions, and by a concrete numerical…
Two linear, point-symmetric, coupled consolidation model families with various embedding space dimension values (oedometer models - 1, spherical models - 3, cylindrical models - 2), differing in one boundary condition (coupled 1 - constant…
This study is an introduction to the theory of three-dimensional consolidation. The point of departure in the description are the basic equations of elasticity (i.e. constitutive law, equations of equilibrium in terms of stresses, and the…
Exact solutions of the Caldeira-Leggett Master equation for the reduced density matrix for a free particle and for a harmonic oscillator system coupled to a heat bath of oscillators are obtained for arbitrary initial conditions. The…
We describe how to solve the problem of Taylor dispersion in the presence of absorbing boundaries using an exact stochastic formulation. In addition to providing a clear stochastic picture of Taylor dispersion, our method leads to…
In this paper, we introduce an algorithm that provides approximate solutions to semi-linear ordinary differential equations with highly oscillatory solutions, which, after an appropriate change of variables, can be rewritten as…
The second gradient model of poromechanics, introduced in Part I, is here linearized in the neighborhood of a prestressed reference configuration to be applied to the one-dimensional consolidation problem originally considered by Terzaghi…
This paper presents original and close to optimal stability conditions linking the time step and the space step, stronger than the CFL criterion: $\delta t\leq C\delta x^\alpha$ with $\alpha=\frac{2r}{2r-1}$, $r$ an integer, for some…
A fast convergence in a fixed-time of solutions of nonlinear dynamical systems, for which special requirements are satisfied on the derivative of a quadratic function calculated along the solutions of the system, is proposed. The conditions…
For the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, with given hypothetical non smooth data at time $T > 0 $that may not correspond to an actual solution at time $T$, a previously developed stabilized backward marching explicit leapfrog…
Time-fractional parabolic equations with a Caputo time derivative of order $\alpha\in(0,1)$ are discretized in time using continuous collocation methods. For such discretizations, we give sufficient conditions for existence and uniqueness…
We analyze the consolidation of freshly deposited cohesive and non-cohesive sediment by means of particle-resolved direct Navier-Stokes simulations based on the Immersed Boundary Method. The computational model is parameterized by material…
An important step in using observations of gravitational waves from bounded sources is to relate the observed waveforms far away from a source to the local dynamics and environment of the source. To isolate and identify different features…
We deal with a system of two coupled differential equations, describing the evolution of a first order phase transition. In particular, we have two non-linear parabolic equations: the first one is deduced from a balance law for entropy and…
We present a boundary integral equation solver for computing Taylor relaxed states in non-axisymmetric solid and shell-like toroidal geometries. The computation of Taylor states in these geometries is a key element for the calculation of…
In this paper, we establish temporal decay for a weak solution $u(x,t)$ (with initial data $u_0$) of the Navier-Stokes equations with supercritical fractional dissipation $\alpha \in (0,\frac{5}{4})$ in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)$ and…