Numerical Study of Hydraulic Flux through a Saturated and Inhomogeneous Porous Medium by Means of the FEM

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Abstract: This paper presents the study of water flux in saturated porous medium, homogeneous and inhomogeneous, by the development of particular numerical tool with Finite Element Method (FEM) and formulated in FORTRAN programming language. The finite element model, developed at this article, uses hexahedron finite elements with 8 or 27 nodes. The hydraulic percolation is analyzed by the flux and potential hydraulics determination in soil with sheet piles structures. The study of the massive comprises either clay or clay plus iron mining waste. These numerical applications aims to validate the numerical method implemented using FEM as well as by numerical comparison with similar studies made by other researchers.

WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1991-8747 / 2224-3429, Volume 9, 2014, Art. #27

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A. W. Faria, J. A. Martins, E. C. Romão, "Numerical Study of Hydraulic Flux through a Saturated and Inhomogeneous Porous Medium by Means of the FEM," WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics, vol. 9, pp. 282-289, 2014, DOI:
A. W. Faria, J. A. Martins, E. C. Romão. Numerical Study of Hydraulic Flux through a Saturated and Inhomogeneous Porous Medium by Means of the FEM. WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics. 2014;9:282-289.
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