Homogenization approach and Floquet-Bloch theory for wave analysis in fluid-saturated porous media with mesoscopic heterogeneities

We consider fluid-saturated poroelastic media whose the mechanical response is governed by the Biot model relevant to a mesoscopic scale. Assuming the material properties being described by periodic functions, to analyze wave propagation in such heterogeneous and anisotropic media, we derive a formulation based on the Floquet-Bloch (FB) wave decomposition which enables to analyze waves within the whole first Brillouin zone associated with the periodic structure. The wave dispersion results obtained by the FB approach are compared with those computed using a model derived by the homogenization based on the asymptotic analysis with respect to the scale parameter. As another new ingredient, the homogenized model is extended to describe media saturated simultaneously by multiple different fluids, so that the model involves new permeability tensors and differs in structure from the model derived earlier. The dispersion analysis by the FB approach leads to a cumbersome quadratic eigenvalue problem to be solved for complex wave numbers. We suggest an efficient filtration strategy to identify the principle propagating modes (the fast and slow compressional waves and the shear waves). For comparison with results of the FB transformation applied at the mesoscopic heterogeneity scale, the homogenized model responses are reconstructed using the corrector results of the homogenization with fixing a finite scale. Numerical examples illustrate very good correspondence of the dispersion results, as computed by both the approaches. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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This study focuses on fluid-saturated poroelastic media governed by the Biot model at a mesoscopic scale, using periodic functions to describe material properties and deriving a formulation based on Floquet-Bloch wave decomposition. The results show good correspondence between wave dispersion results obtained by the Floquet-Bloch approach and those computed using a model derived from asymptotic analysis with respect to the scale parameter.