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[MPL] make use of dvalue for (Orthotropic)EmbeddedFracturePermeability

Florian Zill requested to merge FZill/ogs:Perm_Jacobian into master

Previous version of dvalue was incorrect and thus didn't help with convergence issues. The strain derivative of the permeability has to result in a 4x4 matrix for 2D or a 6x6 matrix for 3D. This is now corrected. Therfore Propertydatatype had to be extended by MatrixXd. Also for the correct computation of the dkde part of K_pu, the vectors grad p and (rho_fr*b) had to be lifted to Kelvin space. A simple tests has been added (with biot=1) which converges 5 times faster with the dvalue than without. With larger time steps it wouldn't converge without it.

There is an still an open question regarding the element order: With Taylor-Hood elements, the addition to the jacobian improves convergence as intended, but this is not so with linear elements. If we apply in this case a scaling factor of ~0.7 we still get well improved convergence, but this may also depend on the model and maybe Biot's coefficient.

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Edited by Florian Zill

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