Enrichment strategies and convergence properties of the XFEM for hydraulic fracture problems

DOI10.1016/j.cma.2014.09.004zbMath1423.74884OpenAlexW2014724559MaRDI QIDQ1669322

Elizaveta Gordeliy, Anthony P. Peirce

Publication date: 30 August 2018

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2014.09.004

zbMATH Keywords

convergenceXFEMhydraulic fracturestip enrichment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brittle fracture (74R10) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Theories of fracture and damage (74A45)

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Uses Software

• XFEM
• FEAPpv

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