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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

In this work, we consider a hybrid mixed finite element method for Biot's model. The hybrid P1-RT0-P0 discretization of the displacement-pressure-Darcy's velocity system of Biot's model presented in \cite{C. Niu} is not uniformly stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Chunyan Niu , Hongxing Rui , Xiaozhe Hu

We analyze a semi-explicit time discretization scheme of first order for poro\-elasticity with nonlinear permeability provided that the elasticity model and the flow equation are only weakly coupled. The approach leads to a decoupling of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Robert Altmann , Roland Maier

This paper introduces a unified model for thermo-poroelasticity and multiple-network poroelasticity, reformulated into a total-pressure-based system. We first establish the well-posedness of the problem via a Galerkin-based argument and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Huipeng Gu , Mingchao Cai , Jingzhi Li , Yu Jiang

In this work, we present and analyze a fully-mixed finite element scheme for the dynamic poroelasticity problem in the low-frequency regime. We write the problem as a four-field, first-order, hyperbolic system of equations where the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Stefano Bonetti , Michele Botti , Patrick Vega

We introduce a coupled system of PDEs for the modeling of the fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interaction in a poroelastic material with a single static fracture. The fluid flow in the fracture is modeled by a lower-dimensional Darcy equation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Katja K. Hanowski , Oliver Sander

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

We perform the linear stability analysis for a new model for poromechanical processes with inertia (formulated in mixed form using the solid deformation, fluid pressure, and total pressure) interacting with diffusing and reacting solutes…

A finite-element discretization of such an equation yields a linear system whose conditioning worsens as the variations in the values of PDE coefficients becomes large. This paper introduces a procedure by which the discrete system obtained…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Yuliya Gorb , Daria Kurzanova , Yuri Kuznetsov

We consider a strongly heterogeneous medium saturated by an incompressible viscous fluid as it appears in geomechanical modeling. This poroelasticity problem suffers from rapidly oscillating material parameters, which calls for a thorough…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Robert Altmann , Eric Chung , Roland Maier , Daniel Peterseim , Sai-Mang Pun

We develop a preconditioner for the linear system arising from a finite element discretization of the Phase Field Crystal (PFC) equation. The PFC model serves as an atomic description of crystalline materials on diffusive time scales and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Simon Praetorius , Axel Voigt

The coupled Darcy-Stokes problem is widely used for modeling fluid transport in physical systems consisting of a porous part and a free part. In this work we consider preconditioners for monolitic solution algorithms of the coupled…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Karl Erik Holter , Miroslav Kuchta , Kent-Andre Mardal

We present a stable finite element method for incompressible nonlinear elasticity based on a four-field mixed formulation involving the displacement, displacement gradient, first Piola--Kirchhoff stress and pressure. Unlike existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

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

We consider flux-based multiple-porosity/multiple-permeability poroelasticity systems describing multiple-network flow and deformation in a poro-elastic medium, sometimes also referred to as MPET models. The focus of the paper is on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Qingguo Hong , Johannes Kraus , Maria Lymbery , Mary Fanett Wheeler

The generalized Biot-Brinkman equations describe the displacement, pressures and fluxes in an elastic medium permeated by multiple viscous fluid networks and can be used to study complex poromechanical interactions in geophysics, biophysics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Q. Hong , J. Kraus , M. Kuchta , M. Lymbery , K. A. Mardal , M. E. Rognes

This paper presents a model where thermo-hydro-mechanical processes are coupled to a deformation model for preexisting fractures. The model is formulated within a discrete-fracture-matrix framework where the rock matrix and the fractures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Ivar Stefansson , Inga Berre , Eirik Keilegavlen

This study investigates the coupled deformation and flow behavior of thin, hyper-elastic, porous membranes subjected to pressure loading. Using bulge test experiments, optical deformation measurements, and flow rate characterization, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-19 Alexander Gehrke , Zoe King , Kenneth S. Breuer

In this paper, we propose a new formulation and a suitable finite element method for the steady coupling of viscous flow in deformable porous media using divergence-conforming filtration fluxes. The proposed method is based on the use of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Ruben Caraballo , Chansophea Wathanak In , Alberto F. Martín , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this paper, a novel isogeometric method for Biot's consolidation model is constructed and analyzed, using a four-field formulation where the unknown variables are the solid displacement, solid pressure, fluid flux, and fluid pressure.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Hanyu Chu , Luca Franco Pavarino