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Fractures play a critical role in governing fluid flow within subsurface energy systems, including oil and gas production, geologic carbon sequestration, and underground hydrogen storage. This study investigated the impact of pore-scale…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Ruichang Guo , Hongsheng Wang , Reza Ershadnia , Seyyed Hosseini

Modeling coupled processes in fractured porous media -- flow, deformation, fracture mechanics, and thermal/chemical effects -- often relies on mixed dimensional multiphysics formulations. These systems are nonlinear and depend on physical…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jakub Wiktor Both , Inga Berre

Developing optical systems for free-space applications requires simulation tools that accurately capture turbulence-induced wavefront distortions and support gradient-based optimization. Here we introduce TurPy, a GPU-accelerated, fully…

Phase-field modeling -- a continuous approach to discontinuities -- is gaining popularity for simulating rock fractures due to its ability to handle complex, discontinuous geometry without an explicit surface tracking algorithm. None of the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-24 Fan Fei , Jinhyun Choo , Chong Liu , Joshua A. White

Understanding how pore structure influences flow and transport behaviour in granular materials is essential for addressing a wide range of geotechnical, hydraulic, and environmental challenges. These processes are largely shaped by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jie Qi , Wenbin Fei , Guillermo A. Narsilio

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 fractured natural formations, the equations governing fluid flow and geomechanics are strongly coupled. Hydrodynamical properties depend on the mechanical configuration, and they are therefore difficult to accurately resolve using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-07 Matteo Cusini , Joshua A. White , Nicola Castelletto , Randolph R. Settgast

We consider a two-phase Darcy flow in a fractured porous medium consisting in a matrix flow coupled with a tangential flow in the fractures, described as a network of planar surfaces. This flow model is also coupled with the mechanical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Francesco Bonaldi , Konstantin Brenner , Jérôme Droniou , Roland Masson

In this paper, we consider the flow of an incompressible fluid in a deformable porous solid. We present a mathematical model using the framework offered by the theory of interacting continua. In its most general form, this framework…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2013-02-27 D. Z. Turner , K. B. Nakshatrala , M. J. Martinez

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

In this paper we present a mathematical model and a numerical workflow for the simulation of a thermal single-phase flow with reactive transport in porous media, in the presence of fractures. The latter are thin regions which might behave…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti

We introduce a partitioned coupling approach for iterative coupling of flow processes in deformable fractures embedded in a poro-elastic medium that is enhanced by interface quasi-Newton (IQN) methods. In this scope, a unique computational…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 Patrick Schmidt , Alexander Jaust , Holger Steeb , Miriam Schulte

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

Frictional instabilities in fluid saturated granular materials underlie natural hazards, including submarine landslides and earthquake initiation. Experiments show distinct failure behaviors under subaerial and subaqueous conditions due to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-25 Bimal Chhushyabaga , Behrooz Ferdowsi

In fractured poroelastic media under high differential stress, the shearing of fractures and faults and the corresponding propagation of wing cracks can be induced by fluid injection. Focusing on low-pressure stimulation with fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Hau Trung Dang , Inga Berre , Eirik Keilegavlen

We have developed a simulation technique that uses non-linear finite element analysis and elastic fracture mechanics to compute physically plausible motion for three-dimensional, solid objects as they break, crack, or tear. When these…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 James F. O'Brien , Jessica K. Hodgins

This work presents a novel algorithm for generating porous structures as an alternative to the PoreSpy program suite. Unlike PoreSpy, which often produces structures whose porosity deviates from the target value, our proposed algorithm…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Shota Arai , Takashi Yoshidome

Scalable and efficient numerical simulations continue to gain importance, as computation is firmly established as the third pillar of discovery, alongside theory and experiment. Meanwhile, the performance of computing hardware grows through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pietro Incardona , Antonio Leo , Yaroslav Zaluzhnyi , Rajesh Ramaswamy , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

The objective of this study is to better understand the influence of fractures on the possibility of free convection in porous media. To this aim, we introduce a mathematical model for density driven flow in the presence of fractures, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-06 Arash Andrea Roknian , Anna Scotti , Alessio Fumagalli

DeePore is a deep learning workflow for rapid estimation of a wide range of porous material properties based on the binarized micro-tomography images. By combining naturally occurring porous textures we generated 17700 semi-real 3-D…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-13 Arash Rabbani , Masoud Babaei , Reza Shams , Ying Da Wang , Traiwit Chung