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Studying initiation and propagation of hydraulic fractures is carried out based on the hypersingular boundary element method.
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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 1, pp. 45–63, January–February, 2007.
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Zubkov, V.V., Koshelev, V.F. & Lin’kov, A.M. Numerical modeling of hydraulic fracture initiation and development. J Min Sci 43, 40–56 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10913-007-0006-6
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