A parallel finite element scheme for thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupled problems in porous media

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1631-1641

  Wang, Wenqing ^a   Kosakowski, Georg ^b   Kolditz, Olaf ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; Finite element method; Parallel computing; Porous media; Thermo hydro mechanical (THM) coupled processes

Indexed keywords

APRIORI; BI-CGSTAB; CHEMICAL PROCESS; COMPLEX INTERACTION; COMPUTATIONAL TASK; COUPLED PROBLEMS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SCHEMES; GEOSCIENCE; HYDRO-MECHANICAL; INTER PROCESSOR COMMUNICATION; LINEAR EQUATION SYSTEM; LINEAR SOLVER; MESH TOPOLOGIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OBJECT ORIENTED; PARALLEL CODE; PARALLEL COMPUTING; PARALLEL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PARALLEL SCHEME; PARALLELIZATION; POROUS MEDIA; SPEED-UP; SUB-DOMAINS; SUB-SURFACE; SUBDOMAIN; SUBTASKS; TEST EXAMPLES; THERMO-HYDRO-MECHANICAL (THM) COUPLED PROCESSES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BENCHMARKING; COUPLING; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LINEARITY; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARALLEL COMPUTING; POROUS MEDIUM; THERMOHYDROMECHANICS; TOPOLOGY;

EID: 67650514816     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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