Poroelasticity-Maurice A. Biot memorial issue

Memorial to Maurice Ewing 1906 - 1974

On a multigrid solver for the three- dimensional Biot poroelasticity system in multilayered domains

In this paper, we present problem–dependent prolongation and problem–dependent restriction for a multigrid solver for the three-dimensional Biot poroelasticity system, which is solved in a multilayered domain. The system is discretized on a staggered grid using the finite volume method. During the discretization, special care is taken of the discontinuous coefficients. For the efficient multigr...

Memorial Issue for Professor Nobuhiko Saitô

This special issue of Biophysics and Physicobiology is published as a memorial for Prof. Nobuhiko Saitô who died 2 May 2015. His obituary will appear first in this special issue written by Kei Yura [1], one of the last graduates of Saitô’s laboratory in 1980s. We try to organize this special issue as a review of the work in biophysics by late Nobuhiko Saitô, especially protein folding study and...

Introduction to Michael E. Robbins Memorial Issue

By the time of his death on 23 November 2012, Michael (Mike) E. Robbins had gained a national and, indeed, international , reputation as a leader in the fi eld of radiation-induced normal tissue eff ects. For the fi nal decade or so of his career, Mike had been based at Wake Forest Medical Center, an institution where he had developed a world-class research program looking at the prevention and...

Computational poroelasticity – A review

Computational physics has become an essential research and interpretation tool in many fields. Particularly, in reservoir geophysics, ultrasonic and seismic modeling in porous media is used to study the properties of rocks and characterize the seismic response of geological formations. Here, we give a brief overview of the most common numerical methods used to solve the partial differential equ...