Ibhadode, Osezua
Zhang, Zhidong
Rahnama, Pouyan
Bonakdar, Ali
Toyserkani, Ehsan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Siemens Canada Limited
Petroleum Technology Development Agency, Nigeria
Article History
Received: 9 January 2020
Revised: 12 March 2020
Accepted: 16 March 2020
First Online: 15 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The steps in the BILE model have been elaborately explained and can be reproduced by following the workflow presented and ensuring the right values for volume fraction threshold, <i>f</i><sub><i>th</i></sub>, and number of load evolution steps, <i>n</i><sub><i>le</i></sub>, are chosen (these are also explained in the result section). Notwithstanding, a sample MATLAB code that implements Example InternalRef removed has been provided as supplementarymaterial.