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Multiphysics modeling and simulation drives innovation across industries and academia — as is evidenced by the many uses showcased in the technical papers and posters presented by engineers, researchers, and scientists at the COMSOL Conference each year.
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In this study, we propose an absorbing boundary domain (or condition), which is really simple but still efficient for the 2.5D finite element (FE) analysis. The main application is to simulate the electromagnetic (EM) waves related to the marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) ... Read More
In a pumping test the drawdown of the water table in a piezometer is recorded, as response to pumping from a nearby well. Pumping tests belong into the common toolbox of hydro-geologists, used to obtain basic parameters for aquifer characterization. There are various approaches to ... Read More
Bentonite is a versatile material that is, among other things, envisaged in designs for radioactive waste repositories to protect the waste canisters against groundwater. The thermo-hydraulic-mechanically coupled process of bentonite saturation is commonly based on two-phase flow and a ... Read More
Spectral Induced Polarization (SIP) is a geophysical technique that measures the frequency dependence of the electrical conductivity of a material. The potential of using SIP to predict the hydraulic conductivity of the ground has been investigated since 1950s. However, the dependency of ... Read More
Modeling of fractured porous media systems is currently of high interest in various academic and applied fields, mainly in the geological and material sciences. The very different scales of the region of an application case on the larger end and the fracture on the lower end pose a ... Read More
For hydrogeologists pumping tests are the most common method to obtain characteristic aquifer properties, like transmissivity and storativity. For the evaluation of pumping tests it is common practice to compare field measurements and 1D analytical solutions. Numerical methods offer the ... Read More
In plate tectonics, the relative motion between plates at a plate boundary generates tectonic stress, and most earthquakes occur at these plate boundaries. However, only a small proportion of earthquakes occur in plate interiors, such as the 1811–12 New Madrid Earthquake (8.1 Mw) in the ... Read More
Ice flows because at low stresses it deforms viscously; the viscosity depends upon the stress. The lubrication approximation (LA) states shear stress is proportional to the product of the ice depth and surface slope. At ice divides the slope and shear stress are zero meaning the ... Read More
Subduction, the process through which the cold and dense oceanic lithosphere sinks into the highly viscous mantle, is the main driving force of plate tectonics and is important for recycling the Earth's materials. Active subduction has not been observed in any other planet in our solar ... Read More