Hi,

I am starting to get familiarized with the solution of one-phase flow in
fractured media in Dumux 3.2. I started by trying to simulate the first
benchmark proposed in Flemisch et al (2018)  (reference below) witht he Box
and the Ctpfa methods.  The paper used a preivous version of Dumux, when
the multidomain coupling manager did not exist.

It is a 2d domain containning a regular fracture network (gmsh file is
attached). I used an example in Dumux-pub and basically only changed the
dimension of the domain from 2d to 3d and altered the boundary conditions
(project is attached).

 First of all, I have a question about the multidomain assembler. It deals
with the two domains by solving the fracture and the matrix domains
separetely, treating the jacobian and solution vectors as block structures,
which makes this stationary problem non-linear. This led me to convergence
issues, since the Box method does not converge for any of the meshes I
tested. *Is there the possibility of handling this problem in a fully
coupled way ?* that is, making the multi-domain assemblage so I have only
one matrix where the nodes which contain  both fracture and matrix have the
contributions of both domains added up. This way I would not need a
non-linear solver. Any function to do that while maintaining the
multi-domain context ?

If not, I would like to hear some insights, if you have any, on what may be
causing the non-convergence of the bok method. I use the UMFPackBackend
linear solver and I have tried many other finer and coarser meshes.

Reference:
Flemisch, B., Berre, I., Boon, W., Fumagalli, A., Schwenck, N., Scotti, A.,
Stefansson, I., Tatomir, A., 2018. Benchmarks for single-phase flow in
fractured porous media. Advances in Water Resources. 111, 239–258.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Ana

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