Numerical analysis of a type III thermo-porous-elastic problem with microtemperatures

Abstract

In this work, we consider, from the numerical point of view, a poro-thermoelastic problem. The thermal law is the so-called of type III and the microtemperatures are also included into the model. The variational formulation of the problem is written as a linear system of coupled first-order variational equations. Then, fully discrete approximations are introduced by using the classical finite-element method and the implicit Euler scheme. A discrete stability property and an a priori error estimates result are proved, from which the linear convergence of the algorithm is derived under suitable additional regularity conditions. Finally, some one- and two-dimensional numerical simulations are presented to show the accuracy of the approximation and the behavior of the solution.