Abstract
Geotechnical materials are multi-phase combinations of solid, fluid and gas. The simplest mathematical formulation of their behaviour is based on Biot-type equations coupling the properties of the solid grains to those of an incompressible porefluid (water). Progress in the large scale computation of geotechnical situations depends on the calculation processes being parallelisable. This paper shows that coupled calculations of importance in geotechnical engineering can be parallelised, and evaluates the performances of different algorithms for solving the governing equations.
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Smith, I.M. (1998). Parallel Coupled Analyses in Geotechnical Engineering. In: Cividini, A. (eds) Application of Numerical Methods to Geotechnical Problems. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 397. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2512-0_2
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