Simulation of the growth of multiple interacting 2D hydraulic fractures driven by an inviscid fluid

In this paper we develop a computational procedure to investigate linear fracture of two-dimensional problems in isotropic linearly elastic media. A symmetric Galerkin boundary element method (SGBEM), based on a weakly singular, weak-form traction integral equation, is adopted to model these fractur...

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Main Author: Erickson, Andrew Jay
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19986