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This work proposes a mixed finite element method for the Biot poroelasticity equations that employs the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas finite element space for the solid displacement and piecewise constants for the fluid pressure. The method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Wietse M. Boon , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti

We develop robust solvers for a class of perturbed saddle-point problems arising in the study of a second-order elliptic equation in mixed form (in terms of flux and potential), and of the four-field formulation of Biot's consolidation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Wietse M. Boon , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this paper, we propose a numerical method for computing solutions to Biot's fully dynamic model of incompressible saturated porous media [Biot;1956]. Our spatial discretization scheme is based on the three-field formulation (u-w-p) and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-24 Zahrasadat Lotfian , Mettupalayam Sivaselvan

In this paper we propose a new finite element discretization for the two-field formulation of poroelasticity which uses the elastic displacement and the pore pressure as primary variables. The main goal is to develop a numerical method with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Jeonghun J. Lee , Jacob Moore

The mechanical behaviour of a poroelastic medium permeated by multiple interacting fluid networks can be described by a system of time-dependent partial differential equations known as the multiple-network poroelasticity (MPET) equations or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Eleonora Piersanti , Jeonghun J. Lee , Travis Thompson , Kent-Andre Mardal , Marie E. Rognes

We derive parameter-robust quasi-optimal error estimates for mixed finite element methods for the nonlinear Darcy--Forchheimer equations with mixed boundary conditions. Using the framework of operator preconditioning, we also design…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Rishi Das , Harsha Hutridurga , Amiya K. Pani , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

This paper presents and studies an approach for constructing auxiliary space preconditioners for finite element problems using a constrained nonconforming reformulation, that is based on a proposed modified version of the mortar method. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Delyan Z. Kalchev , Panayot S. Vassilevski

In this paper, we present block preconditioners for a stabilized discretization of the poroelastic equations developed in [45]. The discretization is proved to be well-posed with respect to the physical and discretization parameters, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-07 James H. Adler , Francisco J. Gaspar , Xiaozhe Hu , Peter Ohm , Carmen Rodrigo , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

In this work we are interested in effectively solving the quasi-static, linear Biot model for poromechanics. We consider the fixed-stress splitting scheme, which is a popular method for iteratively solving Biot's equations. It is well-known…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Erlend Storvik , Jakub Wiktor Both , Kundan Kumar , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Florin Adrian Radu

A stabilized conforming mixed finite element method for the three-field (displacement, fluid flux and pressure) poroelasticity problem is developed and analyzed. We use the lowest possible approximation order, namely piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Lorenz Berger , Rafel Bordas , David Kay , Simon Tavener

We study the fully mixed formulation of the Biot equations, which is characterized by a symmetric coupling between flow and deformation. This structure enables the use of stable mixed finite elements for each subproblem without a strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Fleurianne Bertrand , Jakub Wiktor Both , Tugay Dağlı

We consider the Stokes-Darcy coupled problem, which models the interaction between free-flow and porous medium flow. By enforcing the normal flux continuity interface condition directly within the finite-element spaces, we establish unified…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Wietse M. Boon , Xiaozhe Hu , Xue Wang

This work focuses on the numerical solution of the dynamics of a poroelastic material in the frequency domain. We provide a detailed stability analysis based on the application of the Fredholm alternative in the continuous case, considering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Cristian Cárcamo , Alfonso Caiazzo , Felipe Galarce , Joaquín Mura

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 S. Badia , M. Hornkjøl , A. Khan , K. -A. Mardal , A. F. Martín , R. Ruiz-Baier

We propose a novel cut finite element method for the numerical solution of the Biot system of poroelasticity. The Biot system couples elastic deformation of a porous solid with viscous fluid flow and commonly arises on domains with complex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Nanna Berre , Kent-Andre Mardal , André Massing , Ivan Yotov

In this thesis we develop a stabilised finite element method for solving the equations of poroelasticity to enable solving complex models of biological tissues such as the human lungs. For the proposed numerical scheme, we use the lowest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Lorenz Berger

In this paper, we develop a multiphysics finite element method for solving the quasi-static thermo-poroelasticity model with nonlinear permeability. The model involves multiple physical processes such as deformation, pressure, diffusion and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Zhihao Ge , Wenshuai Hu

In this work, we present a new stabilization method aimed at removing spurious oscillations in the pressure approximation of Biot's model for poroelasticity with low permeabilities and/or small time steps. We consider different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Álvaro Pé de la Riva , Francisco J. Gaspar , Xiaozhe Hu , James Adler , Carmen Rodrigo , Ludmil Zikatanov

We consider systematic numerical approximation of a viscoelastic phase separation model that describes the demixing of a polymer solvent mixture. An unconditionally stable discretisation method is proposed based on a finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-08 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

In this paper we advance the analysis of discretizations for a fluid-structure interaction model of the monolithic coupling between the free flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid and a deformable porous medium separated by an interface. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Wietse M. Boon , Martin Hornkjøl , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier