Abstract:Bathe algorithm converts the locating of the phreatic surface to a nonlinear constitutive problem. And the implication of Signorini condition can simulate a seepage face as a head-fixed boundary through iterative calculation. Because an unsaturated seepage problem is also a nonlinear flow problem,the implication of Bathe algorithm and Signorini condition makes it possible to model both saturated and unsaturated seepage problems with a unified method by a minimal modification to an ordinary finite element method,and avoiding solving a variational inequality system. The followings are discussed mainly:(1) the improvements of Bathe algorithm in converge and its generalized form in a three-dimensional model;(2) the implement of the switching algorithm of Signorini condition to solving seepage problems;and (3) the under-relaxation scheme to improve the mass conservation and converge properties when an unsteady unsaturated problem is solved. Finally,some numerical examples are solved to evaluate the applicability of the proposed method;and the results are compared with those available in the literature.
BATHE K J,KHOSHGOFTAAR M R. Finite element free surface seepage analysis without mesh iteration[J]. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics,1979,3(1):13-22.
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