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Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 253 (2013) 305–322 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. journal homepage: www.else /locate/cma Coupling schemes for modeling hydraulic fracture propagation using the XFEM Elizaveta Gordeliy, Anthony Peirce ⇑ Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z2 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We describe coupled algorithms that use the Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM) to solve the elastic Received 9 May 2012 crack component of the elasto-hydrodynamic equations that govern the propagation of hydraulic frac- Received in revised form 17 August 2012 tures in an elastic medium. With appropriate enrichment, the XFEM resolves the Neumann to Dirichlet Accepted 18 August 2012 2 (ND) map for crack problems with Oðh Þ accuracy and the Dirichlet to Neumann (DN) map with OðhÞ Available online 15 September 2012 accuracy. For hydraulic fracture problems with a lag separating the fluid front from the fracture front, 2 we demonstrate that the finite pressure field makes it possible to use a scheme based on the Oðh Þ XFEM Keywords: