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Object-oriented (OO) methods become more and more important in order to meet scientific computing challenges, such as the treatment of coupled non-linear multi-field problems with extremely high resolutions. This two-part paper introduces an object-oriented concept for numerical modelling multi-process systems in porous media (Part 1). The C++ implementation of the OO design for process objects (PCS) as a class is described and illustrated with several applications. Due to the importance of the encapsulation of processes as individual PCS objects we denote our concept as an process-oriented approach.
The presented examples (Part 2) are dealing with thermal (T), hydraulic (H), mechanical (M) and componental processes (C) in bentonite materials, which are used as buffer material for the isolation of hazardous waste in geologic barriers. In particular, we are interested in coupling phenomena such as thermally induced desaturation, non-isothermal consolidation, swelling/shrinking phenomena as well as in a better understanding of the coupled, non-linear THM system.
Part 1 of this paper is about design and implementation of processes in an object-oriented way. Here we give numerical examples to show the variety of problems which can be treated based on the process-oriented approach.
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Kolditz, O., Wang, W., de Jonge, J., Xie, M., Bauer, S. (2005). A process-oriented approach to compute THM problems in porous media - Part 2: Numerical applications. In: Schanz, T. (eds) Unsaturated Soils: Numerical and Theoretical Approaches. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 94. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26737-9_17
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