Wenqing Wang1, Thomas Schnicke2, Olaf Kolditz3
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.21, No.3, pp. 217-236, 2011, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2011.021.217
Abstract This work focuses on parallel finite element simulation of thermal hydraulic and mechanical (THM) coupled processes in porous media, which is a common phenomenon in geological applications such as nuclear waste repository and CO2 storage facilities. The Galerkin finite element method is applied to solve the derived partial differential equations. To deal with the coupling terms among the equations, the momentum equation is solved individually in a monolithic manner, and moreover their solving processes are incorporated into the solving processes of nonisothermal hydraulic equation and heat transport equation in a staggered manner. The computation task… More >