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We analyze a finite element/boundary element procedure to solve a non-convex contact problem for the double-well potential. After relaxing the associated functional, the degenerate minimization problem is reduced to a boundary/domain…
We introduce a stress/total-pressure formulation for poroelasticity that includes the coupling with steady nonlinear diffusion modified by stress. The nonlinear problem is written in mixed-primal form, coupling a perturbed twofold…
We consider a poromechanics model including frictionless contact mechanics. The resulting model consists of the Biot equations with contact boundary conditions leading to a variational inequality modelling mechanical deformations coupled to…
We propose four-field and five-field Hu--Washizu-type mixed formulations for nonlinear poroelasticity -- a coupled fluid diffusion and solid deformation process -- considering that the permeability depends on a linear combination between…
An a posteriori error bound for the pointwise error of the quadratic discontinuous Galerkin method for the unilateral contact problem on polygonal domain is presented. The pointwise a posteriori error analysis is based on the direct use of…
We develop a family of mixed finite element methods for a model of nonlinear poroelasticity where, thanks to a rewriting of the constitutive equations, the permeability depends on the total poroelastic stress and on the fluid pressure and…
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…
A posteriori error estimators are studied for discontinuous Galerkin methods for solving a frictional contact problem, which is a representative elliptic variational inequality of the second kind. The estimators are derived by relating the…
In this work we develop an a posteriori error analysis of a conforming mixed finite element method for solving the coupled problem arising in the interaction between a free fluid and a fluid in a poroelastic medium on isotropic meshes in…
In this paper we present a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin method for the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations coupled to the quasi-static poroelasticity equations via interface conditions. We determine a bound on the data that…
In this article, a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator of residual type is derived for a class of discontinuous Galerkin methods for the frictional contact problem with reduced normal compliance which is modeled as a…
The paper is concerned with guaranteed a posteriori error estimates for a class of evolutionary problems related to poroelastic media governed by the quasi-static linear Biot equations. The system is decoupled employing the fixed-stress…
In this article, we employ discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the finite element approximation of the frictionless unilateral contact problem using quadratic finite elements over simplicial triangulation. We first establish an optimal…
We analyze a quasi-static Biot system of poroelasticity for both compressible and incompressible constituents. The main feature of this model is a nonlinear coupling of pressure and dilation through the system's permeability tensor. Such a…
We consider the systematic numerical approximation of Biot's quasistatic model for the consolidation of a poroelastic medium. Various discretization schemes have been analysed for this problem and inf-sup stable finite elements have been…
We propose two different Lagrange multiplier methods for contact problems derived from the augmented Lagrangian variational formulation. Both the obstacle problem, where a constraint on the solution is imposed in the bulk domain and the…
In this paper, we propose a novel iterative multiscale framework for solving high-contrast contact problems of Signorini type. The method integrates the constrained energy minimizing generalized multiscale finite element method (CEM-GMsFEM)…
This article proposes a boundary element method for the dynamic contact between a linearly elastic body and a rigid obstacle. The Signorini contact problem is formulated as a variational inequality for the Poincar\'{e}-Steklov operator for…
We improve the residual based stabilization technique for Signorini contact problems with Tresca friction in linear elasticity solved with $hp$-mixed BEM which has been recently analyzed by Banz et al.~in Numer.~Math.~135 (2017)…
We develop a numerical solver for three-dimensional wave propagation in coupled poroelastic-elastic media, based on a high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, with the Biot poroelastic wave equation formulated as a first order…