An Asymptotic Framework for the Analysis of Hydraulic Fractures: The Impermeable Case
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Abstract
This paper presents a novel asymptotic framework to obtain detailed solutions describing the propagation of hydraulic fractures in an elastic material. The problem consists of a system of nonlinear integro-differential equations and a free boundary problem. This combination of local and nonlocal effects leads to transitions on a small scale near the crack tip, which control the behavior across the whole fracture profile. These transitions depend upon the dominant physical process(es) and are identified by simultaneously scaling the associated parameters with the distance from the tip. A smooth analytic solution incorporating several physical processes in the crucial tip region can be constructed using this new framework. In order to clarify the exposition of the new methodology, this paper is confined to considering the impermeable case in which only the two physical processes of viscous dissipation and structure energy release compete.
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