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An accurate modeling of reactive flows in fractured porous media is a key ingredient to obtain reliable numerical simulations of several industrial and environmental applications. For some values of the physical parameters we can observe…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Luca Formaggia , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti

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

Simulations of fluid flow in naturally fractured rocks have implications for several subsurface applications, including energy storage and extraction, and waste storage. We are interested in flow in discrete fracture networks, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Alessio Fumagalli , Eirik Keilegavlen , Stefano Scialò

Flow in fractured porous media is modeled frequently by discrete fracture-matrix approaches where fractures are treated as dimensionally reduced manifolds. Generalizing earlier work we focus on two-phase flow in time-dependent fracture…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Samuel Burbulla , Christian Rohde

We present a complete numerical analysis for a general discretization of a coupled flow-mechanics model in fractured porous media, considering single-phase flows and including frictionless contact at matrix-fracture interfaces, as well as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Francesco Bonaldi , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson

The paper presents a numerical method for simulating flow and mechanics in fractured rock. The governing equations that couple the effects in the rock mass and in the fractures are obtained using the discrete fracture-matrix approach. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Jan Stebel , Jakub Kružík , David Horák , Jan Březina , Michal Béreš

A new discretization approach is presented for the simulation of flow in complex poro-fractured media described by means of the Discrete Fracture and Matrix Model. The method is based on the numerical optimization of a properly defined…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-10 Stefano Berrone , Alessandro D'Auria , Stefano Scialo'

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

Fractures form the main pathways for flow in the subsurface within low-permeability rock. For this reason, accurately predicting flow and transport in fractured systems is vital for improving the performance of subsurface applications.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Karra , D. O'Malley , J. D. Hyman , H. S. Viswanathan , G. Srinivasan

This paper focuses on the numerical simulation of geothermal systems in complex geological settings. The physical model is based on two-phase Darcy flows coupling the mass conservation of the water component with the energy conservation and…

We present a hybrid framework that couples finite element methods (FEM) with physics-informed DeepONet to model fluid transport in porous media from sharp, localized Gaussian sources. The governing system consists of a steady-state Darcy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Erdi Kara , Panos Stinis

In this paper, we are interested in an efficient numerical method for the mixed-dimensional approach to modeling single-phase flow in fractured porous media. The model introduces fractures and their intersections as lower-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Ana Budiša , Xiaozhe Hu

Simulation of fracturing processes in porous rocks can be divided into two main branches: (i) modeling the rock as a continuum which is enhanced with special features to account for fractures, or (ii) modeling the rock by a discrete (or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Halvor Møll Nilsen , Idar Larsen , Xavier Raynaud

We performed a set of numerical simulations to characterize the interplay of fracture network topology, upscaling, and mesh refinement on flow and transport properties in fractured porous media. We generated a set of generic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Aleksandra A. Pachalieva , Matthew R. Sweeney , Hari Viswanathan , Emily Stein , Rosie Leone , Jeffrey D. Hyman

This paper deals with simulation of flow and transport in porous media such as transport of groundwater contaminants. We first discuss how macro scale equations are derived and which terms have to be closed by models. The transport of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Quanji Cai , Sheema Kooshapur , Michael Manhart , Ralf-Peter Mundani , Ernst Rank , Andreas Springer , Boris Vexler

In this paper, we present a multiscale method for simulations of the multicontinua unsaturated flow problems in heterogeneous fractured porous media. The mathematical model is described by the system of Richards equations for each continuum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-02 Denis Spiridonov , Maria Vasilyeva , Eric T. Chung

The flow of incompressible fluids through porous media plays a crucial role in many technological applications such as enhanced oil recovery and geological carbon-dioxide sequestration. The flow within numerous natural and synthetic porous…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-23 S. H. S. Joodat , K. B. Nakshatrala , R. Ballarini

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution of compressible fluid flow in a fractured porous medium. The fracture represents a fast pathway (i.e., with high permeability) and is modeled as a hypersurface embedded in the porous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Phuoc-Toan Huynh , Yanzhao Cao , Thi-Thao-Phuong Hoang

Fractures are ubiquitous in the subsurface and strongly affect flow and deformation. The physical shape of the fractures, they are long and thin objects, puts strong limitations on how the effect of this dynamics can be incorporated into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Eirik Keilegavlen , Alessio Fumagalli , Runar Berge , Ivar Stefansson , Inga Berre

We develop a novel Hybrid High-Order method for the simulation of Darcy flows in fractured porous media. The discretization hinges on a mixed formulation in the bulk region and on a primal formulation inside the fracture. Salient features…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Florent Chave , Daniele Di Pietro , Luca Formaggia