An Eulerian moving front algorithm with weak-form tip asymptotics for modeling hydraulically driven fractures

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 185-200

  Pierce, Anthony ^a   Detournay, Emmanuel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fracture mechanics; Hydraulic fracture; Moving front

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTIONS; ASYMPTOTICS; CHANNEL REGIONS; COARSE MESHES; COUPLED EQUATIONS; ELASTIC MATERIALS; EULERIAN; EULERIAN MESHES; EXACT SOLUTIONS; FLUID PRESSURES; FRACTURE WIDTHS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; LENGTH-SCALE; MOVING FRONT; MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURES; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RECTANGULAR MESHES; SIMILARITY SOLUTIONS; WEAK FORMS;

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; FRACTURE MECHANICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; HYDRAULICS; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; LOCATION; ROCK MECHANICS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 65549124156     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1119     Document Type: Article

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