Isogeometric Analysis in Geomechanics

This presentation was given at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, NTNU, as a research status update. The presentation covers the application of isogeometric analysis in geomechanics with a special emphasis on its advantages over the conventional finite element method. The spline basis functions that are used in isogeometric analysis have some distinctive features that make them interesting for application in geomechanics. These features and their application to geomechanics problems of groundwater flow and poroelasticity are presented.