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Stabilized two-phase material point method for hydromechanical coupling problems in solid–fluid porous media
Xiong Tang
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Wei Liu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Siming He
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Lei Zhu
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Michel Jaboyedoff
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Huanhuan Zhang
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Yuqing Sun
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Zenan Huo
Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Short summary
The paper presents an explicit stabilized two-phase material point method (MPM) based on the one-point two-phase MPM scheme. The novelty of the work lies in the employment of stabilized techniques, including the strain smoothing method and the multi-field variational principle. With its effective and easy-to-implement stabilized techniques, the proposed model offers an effective and reliable approach for simulating both static and dynamic processes in solid–fluid porous media.
The paper presents an explicit stabilized two-phase material point method (MPM) based on the...
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