On the numerical simulation of crack interaction in hydraulic fracturing

DOI10.1007/s10596-017-9702-8zbMath1405.65126OpenAlexW2781228007MaRDI QIDQ1710333

E. W. Remij, D. M. J. Smeulders, Joris J. C. Remmers, Jacques M. Huyghe

Publication date: 22 January 2019

Published in: Computational Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10596-017-9702-8

zbMATH Keywords

extended finite element methodhydraulic fracturingcrack interactionenhanced local pressure model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brittle fracture (74R10) Soil and rock mechanics (74L10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60)

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