Application of 3D time domain boundary element formulation to wave propagation in poroelastic solids (Q5945896)

This paper introduces a transient three-dimensional boundary element formulation for Biot's poroelastic solids, based on the so-called operational or convolution quadrature method developed by Lubich (see, e.g. [\textit{Ch. Lubich} and \textit{A. Ostermann}, Math. Comput. 60, No. 201, 105-131 (1993; Zbl 0795.65062)]). In this technique, the transient response is obtained by using the existing Laplace transform of the fundamental solution coupled with a linear multistep method. The main advantage of such a procedure is that it overcomes the need to find the yet unavailable closed-form transient fundamental solution to poroelastic problems. The accuracy of the procedure is demonstrated with examples.