Phase-field cohesive zone modeling of multi-physical fracture in solids and the open-source implementation in Comsol Multiphysics

Despite the popularity of phase-field models for fracture in purely mechanical problems, their application to the modeling of fracture in multi-physics problems is much less reported. This might be attributed, on the one hand, to the theoretical complexity involved in multi-physical phenomena, and on the other hand, to the cumbersome implementation of these coupled models in home-made platforms. In this work, the phase-field cohesive zone model...