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A Staggered Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Simulation of Wave Propagation in Poroelastic Media

  • Lina Zhao ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: June 12, 2025

Abstract

In this paper, we design a staggered discontinuous Galerkin method for the wave propagation in poroelastic media on general polygonal meshes. The proposed method is robust with respect to the shape of the grids and can handle hanging nodes simply. The scheme shows great advantage in handling problems with complex geometries. The scheme is constructed based on the first-order hyperbolic velocity-stress system of the governing equations (i.e., Biot’s equations). Staggered continuities are imposed for the construction of the approximation spaces, as such penalty term is not needed in contrast to other DG methods. The symmetry of stress is weakly enforced via the introduction of a suitable Lagrange multiplier. The stability and convergence error estimates are analyzed. Several numerical experiments are carried out to test the performances of the proposed scheme. Numerical experiments confirm that the proposed scheme can handle polygonal elements with arbitrarily small edges without losing convergence order.

MSC 2020: 65M15; 65M22; 65M12

Award Identifier / Grant number: CityU 21309522

Funding statement: The research of Lina Zhao is partially supported by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. (Project No. CityU 21309522).

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Received: 2024-12-03
Revised: 2025-05-01
Accepted: 2025-05-26
Published Online: 2025-06-12
Published in Print: 2025-07-01

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