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Recent X-ray imaging experiments have revealed that multiphase flow through porous media involves transient fluctuations in local occupancy, even under fixed macroscopic steady-state conditions where capillary forces dominate at the pore…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-13 Alexandra Karabasova , Sajjad Foroughi , Martin J. Blunt , Branko Bijeljic

Upscaling unsaturated flow in fractured rock remains challenging because fractures and matrix often exhibit sharply contrasting hydraulic behaviors across saturation states. Here, we demonstrate that unsaturated flow undergoes a transition…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Muhammad R. Andiva , Chuanyin Jiang , Martin Ziegler , Qinghua Lei

The developed computational approach is capable of initiating and propagating cracks inside materials and along material interfaces of general multi-domain structures under quasi-static conditions. Special attention is paid to particular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Roman Vodička

We present a multi-resolution approach for constructing model-based simulations of hydraulic fracturing, wherein flow through porous media is coupled with fluid-driven fracture. The approach consists of a hybrid scheme that couples a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Andre Costa , Matteo Cusini , Tao Jin , Randolph Settgast , John Dolbow

In this paper, we present a numerical scheme for the diffuse-interface model in [Abels, Garcke, Gr\"un, M3AS 22(3), 2012] for two-phase flow of immiscible, incompressible fluids. As that model is in particular consistent with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-19 Günther Grün , Fabian Klingbeil

We present a numerical approximation of Darcy's flow through a porous medium that incorporates networks of fractures with non empty intersection. Our scheme employs PolyDG methods, i.e. discontinuous Galerkin methods on general polygonal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Paola Francesca Antonietti , Chiara Facciolà , Marco Verani

A Darcy-Cahn-Hilliard model coupled with damage is developed to describe multiphase-flow and fluid-driven fracturing in porous media. The model is motivated by recent experimental observations in Hele-Shaw cells of the fluid-driven…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-30 Alexandre Guével , Yue Meng , Christian Peco , Ruben Juanes , John E. Dolbow

In this paper we discuss a model describing global behavior of the two phase incompressible flow in fractured porous media. The fractured media is regarded as a porous medium consisting of two superimposed continua, a connected fracture…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-05 Mladen Jurak , Leonid Pankratov , Anja Vrbaški

The flux-mortar mixed finite element method was recently developed for a general class of domain decomposition saddle point problems on non-matching grids. In this work we develop the method for Darcy flow using the multipoint flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Wietse M. Boon , Dennis Gläser , Rainer Helmig , Ivan Yotov

In this article we consider the numerical modeling and simulation via the phase field approach of two-phase flows of different densities and viscosities in superposed fluid and porous layers. The model consists of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-09 Yali Gao , Daozhi Han , Xiaoming He , Ulrich Rüde

A new numerical scheme is proposed for flow computation in complex discrete fracture networks. The method is based on a three-field formulation of the Darcy law for the description of the hydraulic head on the fractures and uses a cost…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-23 Stefano Berrone , Denise Grappein , Sandra Pieraccini , Stefano Scialo

In this work, we consider compressible single-phase flow problems in a porous media containing a fracture. In the latter, a non-linear pressure-velocity relation is prescribed. Using a non-overlapping domain decomposition procedure, we…

A numerical model was developed for flows involving an interface between a homogenous fluid and a porous medium. The numerical model is based on the finite volume method with body-fitted and multi-block grids. The Darcy-Forchheimer extended…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peng Yu , Thong See Lee , Yan Zeng , Hong Tong Low

The discrete fracture model (DFM) has been widely used in the simulation of fluid flow in fractured porous media. Traditional DFM uses the so-called hybrid-dimensional approach to treat fractures explicitly as low-dimensional entries (e.g.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-01 Ziyao Xu , Yang Yang

This contribution presents a diffuse framework for modeling cracks in heterogeneous media. Interfaces are depicted by static phase-fields. This concept allows the use of non-conforming meshes. Another phase-field is used to describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-11 Arne Claus Hansen-Dörr , Franz Dammaß , René de Borst , Markus Kästner

This work outlines a diffuse interface method for the study of fracture and fragmentation in ductile metals at high strain-rates in Eulerian finite volume simulations. The work is based on an existing diffuse interface method capable of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

The paper develops an unfitted finite element method for solving the Darcy system of equations posed in a network of fractures embedded in a porous matrix. The approach builds on the Hughes--Masud stabilized formulation of the Darcy problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Alexey Y. Chernyshenko , Maxim A. Olshanskii

Shear dilation based hydraulic stimulations enable exploitation of geothermal energy from reservoirs with inadequate initial permeability. While contributing to enhancing the reservoir's permeability, hydraulic stimulation processes may…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Eren Ucar , Inga Berre , Eirik Keilegavlen

This paper proposes a parallel numerical algorithm to simulate the flow and the transport in a discrete fracture network taking into account the mass exchanges with the surrounding matrix. The discretization of the Darcy fluxes is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Feng Xing , Roland Masson , Simon Lopez

We propose a new unfitted finite element method for simulation of two-phase flows in presence of insoluble surfactant. The key features of the method are 1) discrete conservation of surfactant mass; 2) the possibility of having meshes that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Thomas Frachon , Sara Zahedi