Fully coupled dual-porosity model for anisotropic formations

A Fully Coupled THM Double Porosity Formulation for Unsaturated Soils

A Simplified Dual-Porosity Model for Two-Phase Flow

A model for two-phase, incompressible, immiscible fluid flow in a highly fractured porous medium is derived as a simplification of a much more detailed dual-porosity model. This simplified model has a nonlinear matrixfracture interaction, and it is more general than similar existing “transfer function” models. It is computationally less complex than the detailed model, and simulation results ar...

A Coupled Cosserat Two-Phase Double Porosity Flow Model

Rock strata in a coal mining environment are essentially bedded in nature and hence exhibit specific load-deformation characteristics. Mining may induce shearing as well as separation along the bedding planes which may result in bending and subsequent fracturing of the rock layer. This on the other hand may substantially change the in situ fluid flow properties of the rock mass, such as permeab...

Dual - Porosity Reservoir Model with an Improved Coupling Term

A new dual-porosity model is developed for singlephase flow in fractured/porous media. As in the commonly-used approach, flow is assumed to take place through the fracture network, and between the fractures and matrix blocks. The matrix blocks are treated in a lumped-parameter manner, with a single average pressure used for each matrix block. However, instead of assuming that fracture/matrix fl...

A Fully Coupled Model for Electromechanics of the Heart

We present a fully coupled electromechanical model of the heart. The model integrates cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac mechanics through excitation-induced contraction and deformation-induced current. Numerical schemes based on finite element were implemented in a supercomputer. Numerical examples were presented using a thin cardiac tissue and a dog ventricle with realistic geometry. Perfo...