渗流方程自适应非均匀网格Dagan粗化算法

在粗网格内先统计渗透率在粗网格中的概率分布，利用Dagan渗透率粗化积分方程通过渗透率概率分布计算粗化网格的等效渗透率，并由等效渗透率计算了粗化网格的压强分布，计算压强时还将渗透率自适应网格技术应用于三维渗流方程的网格粗化算法中，在渗透率或孔隙度变化异常区域自动采用精细网格，用直接解法求解渗透率或孔隙度变化异常区域的压强分布。整个求解区采用不均匀网格粗化，在流体流速高的区域采用精细网格。利用本文方法计算了三维渗流方程的压强分布，结果表明这种算法的解在渗透率或孔隙度异常区的压强分布规律非常逼近精细网格的解，在其他区域压强分布规律非常逼近粗化算法的解，计算速度比采用精细网格提高了约100倍。     

三维非均匀不稳定渗流方程的二维不均匀粗化算法

在无源汇条件下,根据流过某一个横截面的流体流量等于流过这一横截面内所有精细网格的流体流量之和这一特点提出了粗化网格等效渗透率的计算方法。在粗化区内,利用直接解法求解二维渗流方程,再用这些解合成粗化网格的三维合成解,并由合成解计算粗化网格的等效渗透率。根据精度的要求采用了不均匀网格粗化,在流体流速大的区域采用精细网格。利用所得等效渗透率计算了粗化网格的某三维非均匀不稳定渗流场的压降解,结果表明三维非均匀不稳定渗流方程的二维不均匀粗化解非常逼近采用精细网格的解,但计算的速度比采用精细网格提高了80倍。     

含泥质夹层油藏蒸汽注采过程的自适应网格算法研究

根据泥质夹层的低渗特性及空间分布，本文提出了一种含泥质夹层油藏网格渗透率的粗化计算方法，并在此基础上，将自适应网格算法应用于含泥质夹层油藏的数值模拟，提升其计算效率．在计算过程中，网格的动态划分仅依据流体物理量的变化，泥质夹层区域不全部采用细网格，仅针对流动锋面处的泥质夹层采用细网格，其余泥质夹层处采用不同程度的粗网格．相较于传统算法，网格数大幅下降．数值算例表明，自适应网格算法的计算结果精度与全精细网格一致，能够准确模拟出泥质夹层对于流体的阻碍作用，同时计算效率得到大幅提升，约为全精细网格算法的3~7 倍．     

复杂边界稠油油藏蒸汽注采过程自适应网格法的研究

将自适应网格法推广到复杂边界稠油油藏的蒸汽注采过程,针对复杂边界附近的网格提出相应的粗化算法。首先,在实施自适应网格算法之前对边界上最精细网格上的计算参数进行预处理以提高计算精度,然后,再利用同样的预处理方法对自适应网格法中边界处的各层次粗网格的渗透率进行粗化。在建立动态AMR网格系统的网格粗化准则中,仅采用油藏温度和各相饱和度的空间变化作为控制阈值,这样边界区域在相变锋面未到达时将自适应地采用粗网格进行计算。数值算例显示边界附近自适应地采用粗网格进行计算并不影响油藏数值模拟的计算精度,自适应网格法在保持计算精度的同时,大幅度提高了计算速度。     

一种新的求解对流占优问题的自适应网格细化方法

在均匀网格上求解对流占优问题时,往往会产生数值震荡现象,因此需要局部加密网格来提高解的精度。针对对流占优问题,设计了一种新的自适应网格细化算法。该方法采用流线迎风SUPG(Petrov-Galerkin)格式求解对流占优问题,定义了网格尺寸并通过后验误差估计子修正来指导自适应网格细化,以泡泡型局部网格生成算法BLMG为网格生成器,通过模拟泡泡在区域中的运动得到了高质量的点集。与其他自适应网格细化方法相比,该方法可在同一框架内实现网格的细化和粗化,同时在所有细化层得到了高质量的网格。数值算例结果表明,该方法在求解对流占优问题时具有更高的数值精度和更好的收敛性。     

一类面向高阶精度自适应流动计算的流场插值方法

网格自适应技术和高阶精度数值方法是提升计算流体力学复杂问题适应能力的有效技术途径. 将这两项技术结合需要解决一系列技术难题, 其中之一是高阶精度流场插值. 针对高阶精度自适应流动计算, 提出一类高精度流场插值方法, 实现将前一迭代步网格中流场数值解插值到当前迭代步网格中, 以延续前一迭代步中的计算状态. 为实现流场插值过程中物理量守恒, 该方法先计算新旧网格的重叠区域, 然后将物理量从重叠区域的旧网格中转移到新网格中. 为满足高阶精度要求, 先采用k-exact最小二乘方法对旧网格上的数值解进行重构, 获得描述物理量分布的高阶多项式, 随后采用高阶精度高斯数值积分实现物理量精确地转移到新网格单元上. 最后, 通过一个具有精确解的数值算例和一个高阶精度自适应流动计算算例验证了本文算法的有效性. 第一个算例结果表明当网格规模固定不变时, 插值精度阶数越高, 插值误差越小; 第二个算例显示本文方法可以有效缩短高精度自适应流动计算的迭代收敛时间.      

含轻质组分稠油油藏蒸汽注采过程自适应网格法

对含轻质组分稠油油藏蒸汽注采过程数值模拟的自适应网格方法进行研究.网格的细化和粗化是自适应网格方法的基本步骤,为克服组分摩尔分数在网格细化过程中出现小于0或大于1的非物理振荡,提出了一个有效的守恒修正分片线性插值算法;指出可挥发的轻质组分分子量较大时,除了温度和各相饱和度外,组分摩尔分数需作为网格细化的判据.算例显示自适应网格方法有着很好的计算精度和计算速度.     

一种新的并行自适应网格有限元算法

给出了一种新的适用于流体力学问题的并行自适应有限元算法。首先，基于初始稀网格上获得的事后误差估算值，应用反复谱对剖分方法对初网格进行划分，使各子域上总体误差近似相等，从而解决并行自适应计算中的负载平衡问题。然后在各处理器上独立地求解整体问题，并进行指定子域上的网格自适应处理。最后将各子域上的自适应网格组合成一个整体网格，应用基于粘接元技术的区域分裂法在该网格上获得最终解。文末给出了数值实验结果。     

有限元网格自组织神经网络的自动生成

利用多个自组织神经网络的同时训练,可以一次性自动地生成计算区域内与计算区域边界上所有网格节点,尔后按FGT法的基本思想将节点连接成所需的三角形或四边形单元。由于在自组织神经网络中采用了改善的目标函数,节点的分布可以实现自适应调节以反映网格疏密分布的要求。文末几个算例验收证明本算法具有自适应性,适用于凸域、凹域、多连通域等多种情况。     

结合自适应网格的基于特征线方程的分离算法

提出一种新的网格自适应方法:在需要加密的网格单元中心加入新结点,并对加密后的相邻三角形网格单元进行公共边变换, 构成新的网格单元. 与传统的在网格边界中点加入新节点的自适应方法相比,新方法可以更加灵活地控制网格密度,加密后的网格继承原先的网格质量不发生畸变,并且算法编程简便,容易实现. 将自适应网格生成方法和基于特征线方程的分离算法相结合,对空腔内不可压缩黏性流动进行了计算. 在特征线方向上进行时间步离散,动量方程求解过程中采用非增量型分离算法. 计算中,把求解变量梯度值作为判定准则,在变化剧烈的区域进行网格局部加密. 计算结果表明该组合算法有很好的计算精度,并有效减少了计算时间和存储量.      

Modelling fluid flow in fractured-porous rock masses by finite-element techniques

One of the major difficulties of modelling fluid flow processes in hard-rock geologies is the complex nature of the porosity systems. Hydraulic behaviour in these rock masses is characterized by both porous and fractured interflow zones. Traditionally, fractured-porous rocks have been modelled as an equivalent porous medium or as a system of fractures separated by impermeable blocks. A new method is proposed that unifies these two approaches for modelling fluid flow processes in fractured-porous media. The basic idea is to use a combination of isoparametric elements for the porous zones and line elements for the fractures. The coupling between the governing equations for each element type is achieved using the superposition principle. The effectiveness of the new approach is demonstrated by comparing numerical solutions with known solutions for problems of flow and solute transport in fractured-porous media.     

A Comparison Study Between an Adaptive Quadtree Grid and Uniform Grid Upscaling for Reservoir Simulation

An adaptive quadtree grid generation algorithm is developed and applied for tracer and multiphase flow in channelized heterogeneous porous media. Adaptivity was guided using two different approaches. In the first approach, wavelet transformation was used to generate a refinement field based on permeability variations. The second approach uses flow information based on the solution of an initial-time fine-scale problem. The resulting grids were compared with uniform grid upscaling. For uniform upscaling, two commonly applied methods were used: renormalization upscaling and local-global upscaling. The velocities obtained by adaptive grid and uniformly upscaled grids, were downscaled. This procedure allows us to separate the upscaling errors, on adaptive and uniform grids, from the numerical dispersion errors resulting from solving the saturation equation on a coarse grid. The simulation results obtained by solving on flow-based adaptive quadtree grids for the case of a single phase flow show reasonable agreement with more computationally demanding fine-scale models and local-global upscaled models. For the multiphase case, the agreement is less evident, especially in piston-like displacement cases with sharp frontal movement. In such cases a non-iterative transmissibility upscaling procedure for adaptive grid is shown to significantly reduce the errors and make the adaptive grid comparable to iterative local-global upscaling. Furthermore, existence of barriers in a porous medium complicates both upscaling and grid adaptivity. This issue is addressed by adapting the grid using a combination of flow information and a permeability based heuristic criterion.     

Upscaling and Simulation of Waterflooding in Heterogeneous Reservoirs Using Wavelet Transformations: Application to the SPE-10 Model

We have developed an accurate and highly efficient method for upscaling and simulation of immiscible displacements in three-dimensional (3D) heterogeneous reservoirs, which is an extension of the technique that we developed previously for 2D systems. The method utilizes wavelet transformations (WTs) to upscale the geological model of a reservoir, based on the spatial distribution of the single-phase permeabilities and the locations of the wells in the reservoir. It generates a non-uniform grid in which the resolved structure of the fine grid around the wells, as well as in the high-permeability sectors, are preserved, but the rest of the grid is upscaled. A robust uplayering procedure is used to reduce the number of the layers, and the WTs are used to upscale each layer areally. To demonstrate the method’s accuracy and efficiency, we have applied it to the geological model of a highly heterogeneous reservoir put forward in the tenth Society of Petroleum Engineers comparative solution project (the SPE-10 model), and carried out simulation of waterflooding in the upscaled model. Various upscaling scenarios were examined, and although some of them resulted in efficient simulations and accurate predictions, the results when non-uniform upscaling is used based on the WT technique are in excellent agreement with the solution of the same problem in the fine grid of the SPE-10 model. Most importantly, the speed-up factors that we obtain are several orders of magnitude. Hence, the method renders it unnecessary to use massively parallel computations for such problems.     

Computation of complex fluid flows using an adaptive grid method

Recently the concept of adaptive grid computation has received much attention in the computational fluid dynamics research community. This paper continues the previous efforts of multiple one-dimensional procedures in developing and asessing the ideas of adaptive grid computation. The focus points here are the issue of numerical stability induced by the grid distribution and the accuracy comparison with previously reported work. Two two-dimensional problems with complicated characteristics—namely, flow in a channel with a sudden expansion and natural convection in an enclosed square cavity—are used to demonstrate some salient features of the adaptive grid method. For the channel flow, by appropriate distribution of the grid points the numerical algorithm can more effectively dampen out the instabilities, especially those related to artificial boundary treatments, and hence can converge to a steady-state solution more rapidly. For a more accurate finite difference operator, which contains less undesirable numerical diffusion, the present adaptive grid method can yield a steady-state and convergent solution, while uniform grids produce non-convergent and numerically oscillating solutions. Furthermore, the grid distribution resulting from the adaptive procedure is very responsive to the different characteristics of laminar and turbulent flows. For the problem of natural convection, a combination of a multiple one-dimensional adaptive procedure and a variational formulation is found very useful. Comparisons of the solutions on uniform and adaptive grids with the reported benchmark calculations demonstrate the important role that the adaptive grid computation can play in resolving complicated flow characteristics.     

A unified approach to simulation and upscaling of single‐phase flow through vuggy carbonates

Numerical modeling of flow through vuggy porous media, mainly vuggy carbonates, is a challenging endeavor. Firstly, because the presence of vugs can significantly alter the effective porosity and permeability of the medium. Secondly, because of the co‐existence of porous and free flow regions within the medium and the uncertainties in defining the exact boundary between them. Traditionally, such heterogeneous systems are modeled by the coupled Darcy–Stokes equations. However, numerical modeling of flow through vuggy porous media using coupled Darcy–Stokes equations poses several numerical challenges particularly with respect to specification of correct interface condition between the porous and free‐flow regions. Hence, an alternative method, a more unified approach for modeling flows through vuggy porous media, the Stokes–Brinkman model, is proposed here. It is a single equation model with variable coefficients, which can be used for both porous and free‐flow regions. This also makes the requirement for interface condition redundant. Thus, there is an obvious benefit of using the Stokes–Brinkman equation, which can be reduced to Stokes or Darcy equation by the appropriate choice of parameters. At the same time, the Stokes–Brinkman equation provides a smooth transition between porous and free‐flow region, thereby taking care of the associated uncertainties. A numerical treatment for upscaling Stokes–Brinkman model is presented as an approach to use Stokes–Brinkman model for multi‐phase flow. Numerical upscaling methodology is validated by analyzing the error norm for numerical pressure convergence. Stokes–Brinkman single equation model is tested on a series of realistic data sets, and the results are compared with traditional coupled Darcy–Stokes model. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

海洋地震工程流固耦合问题统一计算框架

海底地震动的模拟以及海洋工程结构的地震反应分析中,涉及到海水、饱和海床、弹性基岩、结构之间的相互耦合.传统的方法分别采用声波方程描述理想流体、Biot方程描述饱和海床、弹性波方程描述基岩和结构,分别考虑相互之间的耦合,十分不便.本文基于理想流体、固体分别为饱和多孔介质的特殊情形(孔隙率分别为1和0),由饱和多孔介质的Biot方程可退化得到理想流体的声波方程和固体的弹性波方程.然后,以饱和多孔介质方程为基础,经集中质量有限元离散,考虑不同孔隙率的饱和多孔介质之间耦合的一般情形,建立了该耦合情形的求解方法.进一步论证了该一般情形的耦合计算方法可分别退化到流体与固体、流体与饱和多孔介质、固体与饱和多孔介质之间的耦合计算,从而将流体、固体、饱和多孔介质间的耦合问题纳入到统一计算框架,并编制了相应的三维并行分析程序.以P-SV波垂直入射时,半无限层状海水-饱和海床、海水-弹性基岩、海水-饱和海床-弹性基岩三种情形的动力分析为例,采用统一计算框架结合透射边界条件进行求解,并与传递矩阵方法得到的解进行对比,验证了该统一计算框架的有效性以及并行计算的可行性.      

Solution of some problems of flow through fractured porous media

Problems of fluid flow through a fractured porous medium consisting of fractures and blocks with different filter characteristics are solved. The mass exchange between fractures and blocks is assumed to be proportional to the pressure difference between them. The porosity in the fractures is assumed to be negligibly small. Under these assumptions the determination of the pressure fields reduces to the integration of a system of linear differential equations. The solution is found by the operational method using the Efros theorem. The cases of oil reservoir operation by means of both galleries and wells are considered. The solutions are obtained in an analytical form convenient for calculations.Kazan'. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 94–102, January–February, 1995.     

海洋地震工程流固耦合问题统一计算框架——————不规则界面情形

海底地震动场及海洋声场的模拟中,需要考虑复杂海床介质及海底地形的影响,涉及到海水、饱和海床、弹性基岩之间的相互耦合.传统的方法分别采用声波方程描述理想流体、Biot方程描述饱和海床、弹性波方程描述基岩,分别进行空间离散和界面耦合, 十分不便.本文基于理想流体、固体分别为饱和多孔介质的特殊情形(孔隙率分别为1和0),由饱和多孔介质的Biot方程可退化得到理想流体的声波方程和固体的弹性波方程.然后, 以饱和多孔介质方程为基础, 经集中质量有限元离散,严格考虑不同孔隙率的饱和多孔介质在不规则界面的耦合条件,通过求解法向和切向界面力的途径,建立了不同孔隙率的饱和多孔介质耦合情形的求解方法,将流体、固体、饱和多孔介质间的耦合问题纳入到统一计算框架,并编制了相应的三维并行分析程序.考虑海水--弹性基岩、海水--饱和海床--弹性基岩体系中凹陷地形情形,采用本文提出的统一计算框架, 结合透射边界条件,分析了P波入射时的动力反应, 并通过结果是否满足界面条件,验证了该统一计算框架的有效性以及并行计算的可行性.