A comprehensive review of numerical simulation methods for hydraulic fracturing

A Ismail, S Azadbakht - International Journal for Numerical and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydraulic fracturing unlocks previously inaccessible hydrocarbons in unconventional
reservoirs by creating artificial pathways in the unconventional reservoir. Numerical …

Simulation of the dynamic cracking of brittle materials using a nonlocal damage model with an effective strain rate effect

Z Zhao, C Du, L Sun, N Du - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, a nonlocal multiscale damage model that considers the effect of a strain rate is
presented. Moreover, this model is combined with the scaled boundary finite element …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive scaled boundary finite element method for hydrogen assisted cracking with phase field model

VS Suvin, ET Ooi, C Song, S Natarajan - Theoretical and Applied Fracture …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduces a numerical framework for analysing hydrogen assisted cracking,
employing the scaled boundary finite element method. This is the first instance where the …

Isosurface-based marching cube algorithm for smooth geometric topology optimization within adaptive octree SBFE approach

R Su, P Boonlertnirun, S Tangaramvong… - Engineering Analysis with …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the era of Industry 4.0, the prominence of 3D printing as a pivotal manufacturing
technology has greatly expanded, particularly within the domain of additive manufacturing …

Phase-field modeling of brittle anisotropic fracture in polycrystalline materials under combined thermo-mechanical loadings

R Kiran, K Choudhary, N Nguyen-Thanh - Computers & Structures, 2025 - Elsevier
Phase-field modeling, owing to the regularized representation of discrete crack topologies,
provides an efficient and robust framework for simulating complex fracture mechanisms in …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-GPU based high-performance computing framework in elastodynamics simulation using octree meshes

S Mohammadian, AS Kumar, C Song - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a high-performance computing framework for large-scale
elastodynamic analysis utilizing Graphics Processor Units (GPUs). The study adopts an …

Semi-analytical analysis of nonlinear liquid sloshing in rectangular tanks with scaled boundary finite element method

QS Zang, J Liu, B Zhang, L Qin, WB Ye, S Bordas - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This study presents a novel semi-analytical model for nonlinear liquid sloshing response of
two-dimensional (2D) liquid storage tanks in the context of the scaled boundary finite …

An adaptive SBFEM based on a nonlocal macro/meso damage model for fracture simulation of quasibrittle materials

P Zhang, C Du, W Zhao, S Jiang, N Gong… - Engineering Fracture …, 2024 - Elsevier
An adaptive scaled-boundary finite element method (SBFEM) is proposed to simulate the
crack damage and propagation of quasibrittle materials on the basis of a nonlocal …

On the phase-field modeling of thermo-electromechanical brittle fracture in piezoceramics using an adaptive isogeometric approach

R Kiran, N Nguyen-Thanh, K Zhou - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2024 - Elsevier
An adaptive phase-field model based on isogeometric analysis is presented to investigate
the fracture behaviors of transversely isotropic homogeneous piezoceramics under the …

Dynamic thermal shock resilience of functionally graded materials: An adaptive phase-field approach

AM Shajan, R Piska, S Natarajan - European Journal of Mechanics-A …, 2025 - Elsevier
This work presents a phase field model for dynamic fracture under thermo-mechanical loads
to analyze functionally graded material (FGM). Coupled governing equations are derived by …