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摘要
The prediction of fluid-driven crack propagation in deforming porous media has achieved increasing interest in recent years, in particular with regard to the modeling of hydraulic fracturing, the so-called "fracking". Here, the challenge is to link at least three modeling ingredients for (i) the behavior of the solid skeleton and fluid bulk phases and their interaction, (ii) the crack propagation on not a priori known paths and (iii) the extra fluid flow within developing cracks. To this end, a macroscopic framework is proposed for a continuum phase field modeling of fracture in porous media that provides a rigorous approach to a diffusive crack modeling based on the introduction of a regularized crack surface. The approach overcomes difficulties associated with the computational realization of sharp crack discontinuities, in particular when it comes to complex crack topologies including branching. It shows that the quasi-static problem of elastically deforming, fluid-saturated porous media at fracture is related to a minimization principle for the evolution problem. The existence-of this minimization principle for the coupled problem is advantageous with regard to a new unconstrained stable finite element design, while previous space discretizations of the saddle point principles are constrained by the LBB condition. This proposed formulation includes a generalization of crack driving forces from energetic definitions towards threshold-based criteria in terms of the effective stress related to the solid skeleton of a fluid-saturated porous medium. Furthermore, a Poiseuille-type constitutive continuum modeling of the extra fluid flow in developed cracks is suggested based on a deformation-dependent permeability, that is scaled by a characteristic length.
- 出版日期2017-3
