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A Stabilized Mortar Method for Discontinuities in Geological Media with Non-Conforming Grids
Daniele Moretto, Andrea Franceschini, Massimiliano Ferronato
Accurate numerical simulation of fault and fracture mechanics is critical for the performance and safety assessment of many subsurface systems. The discretized representation of di…
A novel Mortar Method Integration using Radial Basis Functions
Daniele Moretto, Andrea Franceschini, Massimiliano Ferronato
The growing availability of computational resources has significantly increased the interest of the scientific community in performing complex multi-physics and multi-domain simula…
Unexpected fault activation due to underground gas storage in produced reservoirs. Part II: Definition of safe operational bandwidths
Selena Baldan, Massimiliano Ferronato, Andrea Franceschini +9
Underground gas storage is a versatile tool for managing energy resources and addressing pressing environmental concerns. While natural gas is stored in geological formations since…
Unexpected fault activation due to underground gas storage in produced reservoirs. Part I: Mathematical model and mechanisms
Andrea Franceschini, Claudia Zoccarato, Selena Baldan +5
Underground gas storage (UGS) is a critical technology for managing seasonal gas consumption peaks, increasingly important in the face of market uncertainties. However, safety conc…
Parallel Energy-Minimization Prolongation for Algebraic Multigrid
Carlo Janna, Andrea Franceschini, Jacob B. Schroder +1
Algebraic multigrid (AMG) is one of the most widely used solution techniques for linear systems of equations arising from discretized partial differential equations. The popularity…
A scalable preconditioning framework for stabilized contact mechanics with hydraulically active fractures
Andrea Franceschini, Laura Gazzola, Massimiliano Ferronato
A preconditioning framework for the coupled problem of frictional contact mechanics and fluid flow in the fracture network is presented. The porous medium is discretized using low-…
A Reverse Augmented Constraint preconditioner for Lagrange multiplier methods in contact mechanics
Andrea Franceschini, Matteo Frigo, Carlo Janna +1
Frictional contact is one of the most challenging problems in computational mechanics. Typically, it is a tough nonlinear problem often requiring several Newton iterations to conve…
Algebraically stabilized Lagrange multiplier method for frictional contact mechanics with hydraulically active fractures
Andrea Franceschini, Nicola Castelletto, Joshua A. White +1
Accurate numerical simulation of coupled fracture/fault deformation and fluid flow is crucial to the performance and safety assessment of many subsurface systems. In this work, we…
A robust adaptive algebraic multigrid linear solver for structural mechanics
Andrea Franceschini, Victor A. Paludetto Magri, Gianluca Mazzucco +2
The numerical simulation of structural mechanics applications via finite elements usually requires the solution of large-size and ill-conditioned linear systems, especially when ac…