Solvers for the Biot model of poroelastic media
Collaborator: Bodo Erdmann
Principle ideas of our methodology
- Block-diagonal preconditioners.
Simulation of the bone healing process.
The Biot model of the poroelastic media can be used to
simulate a bone fracture. Such a fracture is characterized by a gap between two
parts of the bone and a soft tissue called callus tissue filling the
gap and the neighborhood of the fracture, see the figure below.
The bone itself is also filled with soft tissue of the same properties
as the callus tissue. The three constituents are shown in the figure.
