Abstract
The problem of hydraulic fracturing is of great relevance to various areas and is characterised by the occurrence of complex crack patterns with bifurcations and branches. For this reason, an interesting approach is the modelling of hydraulic fracture using a phase-field model. In addition to the discretisation using the Finite Element Method (FEM), some works have already explored the discretisation of the phase-field model with meshfree methods, including the Smoothed Point Interpolation Methods (SPIM) family. Seeking to take advantage of the good convergence results of SPIM for phase-field modelling of brittle fractures, this paper proposes the use of SPIM for phase-field modelling of pressurised fractures. In order to limit the computational cost, a prescribed SPIM-FEM coupling is employed, with the purpose of concentrating the meshless discretisation only in the regions of expected crack propagation. The model is characterised by a constant internal pressure load along the fracture that is applied indirectly from the formulation of the phase-field model. A series of numerical simulations is presented. The aim is to evaluate the proposed model, verify the results and point out characteristics of the phase-field model with internal pressure.
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