Hybrid high-order methods for flow simulations in extremely large discrete fracture networks (Q6101916)

The hybrid high-order (HHO) method is tested on large-scale Discrete Fracture Networks (DFNs) (more than 1 million fractures). The method is implemented locally and globally conservative independent of the polynomial degree. The use of basis functions based on hierarchical scaled rotated monomials avoids roundoff errors due to ill-conditioning. The authors have shown that the use of nonmatching meshes and the polygonal feature of the HHO method allow one to exploit the channeling effect of DFN flows by reducing the number of dofs, and consequently less RAM.