Modelling hydraulic fractures in porous media using flow cohesive interface elements

This paper revisits the problem of computational modelling of a fluid-driven fracture propagating in a permeable porous medium using zero-thickness flow cohesive interface elements. Both cases of continuous and discontinuous pressure field across the fractures are implemented in a unified formulation. The paper provides computational aspects of hydraulic fracture modelling such as mesh generation, execution time, convergence and numerical...