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E. Rohan1 and R. Cimrman2
1Department of Mechanics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, 2New Technologies Research Centre,
University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic
Keywords: poroelasticity, homogenization, double porosity, micromechanics, multiscale modelling.
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In nature as well as in technical practice one can often find materials with
different levels of porosity at different scales. Considering poroelastic
[4] description at the smallest scale, the theory of
homogenization [3,8] provides a natural
way of upscaling this description to higher levels of porosities in a sense
that effective poroelastic material coefficients (consistent with the Biot
model) at a higher level are obtained by applying homogenization to the lower
level. This leads to a suitable hierarchical description of the porous medium,
where different porosities associated with different scale levels are taken
into account.
In this paper homogenization-based formulae are provided which enable the
computation of the poroelasticity coefficients for a given geometry and topology at the
micro- and meso-scopic levels. The homogenization at each scale level proceeds
in two steps: 1) Find effective (homogenized) coefficients by solving auxiliary
problems for several characteristic (or corrector) functions,
cf. [7,5]. 2) Compute the
homogenized coefficients that can be used for the higher level and, or
"global" (homogenized) model of the current level. 3) Solve the homogenized
problem with given loading and boundary conditions at the macro-scale (the
highest level). As a result of the linearity of the problems, those steps are decoupled in
a sense that the computation of the homogenized coefficients for the global
level is valid for any point having the corresponding "microstructure".
The two-level upscaling "micro-meso-macro" is presented and
the influence of the pore geometry and topology is illustrated. In
[6] systems of interconnected
pores at different scales were considered; in a steady state there is only one pore fluid
pressure. In this paper, a different arrangement of porosities is described
which can be mutually separated by a semipermeable interface, however, each porosity
can form a separate connected system. In this situation, the homogenized
problem results in two different pressures. At the mesoscopic scale we take
into account the Darcy flow in the poroelastic matrix, although in the
mesoscopic fractures (called channels in our terminology) the fluid is assumed
to be static with no pressure gradients.
In the literature, homogenization in poroelasticity is a frequently discussed
issue [1], but to our knowledge, the results
reported in this paper are novel, namely due to the numerical feedback and
computer implementation [2].
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