Secondary Thermal Cracks in EGS: a Variational Approach
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Secondary Thermal Cracks in EGS: a Variational Approach B. Bourdin: Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State university, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. [email protected] C. Maurini: Institut Jean le Rond d’Alembert (UMR 7190), Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Paris, France. [email protected] M. Knepley: Computational Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. [email protected]
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We present a mechanistically faithful and mathematically sound approach to the numerical simulation of secondary thermal cracks propagation in EGS based on the variational approach to fracture [1-4]. While remaining compatible with classical theories, this approach provides a unified framework to crack nucleation, full path identification, including interaction between multiple cracks, branchin...
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تاریخ انتشار 2012