Year: 2022
Type: preprint
Abstract: Flow through porous, elastically deforming media is present in a variety of natural contexts ranging from large-scale geophysics to cellular biology. In the case of incompressible constituents, the porefluid pressure acts as a Lagrange multiplier to satisfy the resulting constraint on fluid divergence. The resulting system of equations is a possibly non-linear saddle-point problem and difficult to solve numerically, requiring nonlinear implicit solvers or flux-splitting methods. Here, we present a method for the simulation of flow through porous media and its coupled elastic deformation. The pore pressure field is calculated at each time step by correcting trial velocities in a manner similar to Chorin projection methods. We demonstrate the method's second-order convergence in space and time and show its application to phase separating neo-Hookean gels.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Derr, Nicholas J., Rycroft, Chris H.
Language: English
Subfield: Computational Mechanics
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4283763917