Q1. What are the contributions in "Efficient treatment of stress singularities in poroelastic wave based models using special purpose enrichment functions" ?
This paper discusses the application of the Wave Based Method for the particular case that stress singularities are present in corners of the poroelastic domain. Based on an asymptotic analysis, the paper derives a criterion to predict the presence of stress singularities and proposes a suitable set of enrichment functions to extend the conventional set of expansion functions. The beneficial effect of incorporating these functions on the convergence of the Wave Based Method is illustrated by means of a numerical validation study.