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A stabilized finite element method for finite-strain three-field poroelasticity

Abstract:
We construct a stabilized finite-element method to compute flow and finitestrain deformations in an incompressible poroelastic medium. We employ a three- field mixed formulation to calculate displacement, fluid flux and pressure directly and introduce a Lagrange multiplier to enforce flux boundary conditions. We use a low order approximation, namely, continuous piecewise-linear approximation for the displacements and fluid flux, and piecewise-constant approximation for the pressure. This results in a simple matrix structure with low bandwidth. The method is stable in both the limiting cases of small and large permeability. Moreover, the discontinuous pressure space enables efficient approximation of steep gradients such as those occurring due to rapidly changing material coefficients or boundary conditions, both of which are commonly seen in physical and biological applications.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1007/s00466-017-1381-8

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
Green Templeton College
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Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Journal:
Computational Mechanics More from this journal
Volume:
60
Issue:
1
Pages:
51–68
Publication date:
2017-01-01
Acceptance date:
2017-01-23
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EISSN:
1432-0924
ISSN:
0178-7675


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2017-01-23

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