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Boudary Conditions for Porous Contact

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MarcopolloEng

Mechanical
Nov 1, 2007
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Dear All,

I'm currently doing simulations related with contact against porous materials (Tissues). As long as I use Pore Pressure=0 everything works fine and I'm able to obtain results. The issue is that in the contact area it will be fluid flow out of the material(exudation) due to the compression imposed. The fluid flow is in both contacting zones wich violates the continuity equation.

I've worked with the FLOW subroutine in order to control the boundary conditions in the contact area, and I also have tried the *Contact permeability keyword. I even tried to impose Pore Pressure=0 as an INITIAL boundary conditions.

Nothing of this works, the program stops without calculating the very first time increment in all previous cases. Only if I forced the Pore pressure = 0 during the whole simulation, the problem works.

Any advice?

Thanks!


 
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