Modeling pressurized fracture propagation with the isogeometric BEM

This paper simulates the propagation of hydraulic fractures under constant fluid pressure using the isogeometric analysis based on boundary element methods (BEM) i.e. the so called isogeomtric BEM. Due to the seamless integration between computer aided design (CAD) and numerical analysis, the isogeomtric BEM eliminates the meshing procedure and geometric errors, and explicitly parametrizes the crack propagation path. Graded knot insertion near...