SFB 1313 Publication "Simulation of flow in deformable fractures using a quasi-Newton based partitioned coupling approach"

February 1, 2022

Authors: Patrick Schmidt, Alexander Jaust, Holger Steeb, and Miriam Schulte | Published in: Computational Geosciences

New SFB 1313 publication, published in the journal Computational Geosciences. The paper has been developed in the framework of SFB 1313's research projects B05 and D02.

"Simulation of flow in deformable fractures using a quasi-Newton based partitioned coupling approach"

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Abstract

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 decomposition into a fracture flow and a poro-elastic domain is developed, where communication and numerical coupling of the individual solvers are realized by consulting the open-source library preCICE. The underlying physical problem is introduced by a brief derivation of the governing equations and interface conditions of fracture flow and poro-elastic domain followed by a detailed discussion of the partitioned coupling scheme. We evaluate the proposed implementation and undertake a convergence study to compare a classical interface quasi-Newton inverse least-squares (IQN-ILS) with the more advanced interface quasi-Newton inverse multi-vector Jacobian (IQN-IMVJ) method. These coupling approaches are verified for an academic test case before the generality of the proposed strategy is demonstrated by simulations of two complex fracture networks. In contrast to the development of specific solvers, we promote the simplicity and computational efficiency of the proposed partitioned coupling approach using preCICE and FEniCS for parallel computations of hydro-mechanical processes in complex, three-dimensional fracture networks.

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Alexander Jaust

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Principal Investigator, Research Project D02

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Holger Steeb

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Spokesman, Principal Investigator, Research Projects B05, C05, and Z02, Central Project Z

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Miriam Schulte

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Principal Investigator, Research Project D02

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