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Consolidation around a point heat source (correction and verification)
Author(s) -
Chaudhry Aqeel Afzal,
Buchwald Jörg,
Kolditz Olaf,
Nagel Thomas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal for numerical and analytical methods in geomechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.419
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1096-9853
pISSN - 0363-9061
DOI - 10.1002/nag.2998
Subject(s) - consolidation (business) , pore water pressure , benchmark (surveying) , geotechnical engineering , mechanics , geology , computer science , physics , accounting , business , geodesy
Summary We provide a brief review of the results obtained by Booker and Savvidou in their original 1985 paper describing the consolidation around a point heat source embedded in a fluid‐saturated porous medium. Although it gained a lot of attention in recent years, mainly as a benchmark problem for numerical codes, the analytical expressions for normal and shear stresses could not be confirmed to be correct. In this manuscript, we verify the expressions for temperature, pressure, and displacement and derive new expressions for the stress tensor withstanding numerical verification using the scientific open‐source thermo‐hydro‐mechanical‐chemical (THMC) simulator OpenGeoSys.