Underwater Flow Noise

Lighthill's theory of aerodynamic sound provides an effective way of investigating underwater flow noise. When combined with a model of the coherent vortical structures in a turbulent boundary layer, it predicts the wave-number frequency pressure spectrum on a rigid surface and, in particular, highlights the r?le of surface viscous stresses as a source of low wave-number pressure fluctuations on a plane surface. The inclusion of surface curvature and flexibility enables the theory to be applied to acoustic streamers (sometimes known as towed arrays). The effect of the interior mechanical structure of the streamers on the flow noise is investigated. Simple algebraic forms are derived for the comparative performance of liquid and visco-elastic-filled streamers. The introduction of porous foam into a liquid streamer is found to be a particularly effective way of attenuating low wave-number disturbances, and theoretical predictions are compared with experiment. Received 19 December 1996 and accepted 2 May 1997     

非定常空化流场结构的实验研究

为深入研究非定常空化流场结构,本文用实验方法研究了绕Clark-Y型水翼的非定常空化流动现象.实验在空化水洞中进行,采用高速摄像技术观测了云状空化阶段的非定常空穴形态,并应用粒子成像测速系统(PIV)对绕水翼空化流场的速度场和涡量场等流动特性进行了同步的实验分析.研究表明:空化现象对流场结构有着重要的影响,在无空化和空...     

Laminar Base Flow Downstream of Slender Cones in Hypersonic Flow

The base flow downstream of slender cones in a stream of perfect gas at Mach numbers 8 and 10 and Reynolds numbers 10⁴ and 10⁵ is numerically investigated. The calculated heat fluxes to the rear face of the body are compared with experimental data. It is shown that the friction and heat transfer coefficients increase without bound as the corner point is approached from both the lateral surface and the rear face, the sign of the latter coefficient being dependent on the body surface temperature factor.     

中国力学学会第五届全国多相流,非牛顿流,物理化学流学术会议简介

中国力学学会第五届全国多相流,非牛顿流,物理化学流学术会议于２０００年１０月３１日到１１月１日在武汉华中科技大学召开．本次会议是过去１９７９年在成都召开的第一届会议,１９８２年在北京召开的第二届会议,１９９０年在杭州召开的第三届会议,１９９３年召开的第四届会议,以及１９９７年在北京召开的第一届国际会议的继续．参加本届会议的代表来自国内力学,工程热物理和热能,化工,冶金,石油,水利等行业共４０人左右,发表论文３１篇,其中气固和液固流动８篇：气液和液液流动９篇,非牛顿流７篇,渗流７篇． 在气固和液固…     

Quantitative Flow Visualization

Modern developments in laser and computer technology, electronic cameras, and digital image processing techniques allow to generate planar distributions of quantitative data in turbulent flows. Large amounts of data can be processed easily and analyzed statistically. With these tools, it is possible to quantitatively visualize turbulent coherent structures, even in flows of high Reynolds number, and measure characteristic spatial quantities like vorticity, length scales, spatial correlation functions, etc. These potentials in analyzing spatial characteristics of turbulent flows are demonstrated with two different methods of quantitative flow visualization: speckle photography as a representative of the line-of-sight methods, and particle image velocimetry belonging to the methods that rely on the scattering of laser light from tracer particles.Sommario.I moderni sviluppi nelle tecnologie del laser e dei computers, delle telecamere elettroniche e le tecniche di analisi digitale delle immagini permettono di ottenere distribuzioni quantitative, in un piano, di dati relativi a flussi turbolenti. Una gran quantità di dati può essere con facilità analizzata statisticamente. Con questi mezzi è possibile visualizzare quantitativamente strutture coerenti turbolente anche in flussi da alto numero di Reynolds, e misurare caratteristiche spaziali, come vorticità scale e funzioni di correlazione. Questa potenzialità di studiare caratteristiche spaziali di flussi turbolenti viene qui mostrata per due differenti metodi di visualizzazione quantitativa: fotografia speckle e PIV (particle image velocimetry).     

Self-Similar Unsteady Viscous Flow

Four examples of self-similar flows of a viscous fluid are considered: separated flow over an expanding plate immersed in an unbounded unsteady viscous flow, the evolution of the velocity field induced by a vortex-source, the flow near an unsteadily moving permeable flat plate, and the flow near an unsteadily rotating disc. For the first example, a numerical solution is constructed. For the next two examples, an analytical solution is found, while the solution of the last problem is reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations.     

A New Non-Darcy Flow Model for Low-Velocity Multiphase Flow in Tight Reservoirs

The pore and pore-throat sizes of shale and tight rock formations are on the order of tens of nanometers. The fluid flow in such small pores is significantly affected by walls of pores and pore-throats. This boundary layer effect on fluid flow in tight rocks has been investigated through laboratory work on capillary tubes. It is observed that low permeability is associated with large boundary layer effect on fluid flow. The experimental results from a single capillary tube are extended to a bundle of tubes and finally to porous media of tight formations. A physics-based, non-Darcy low-velocity flow equation is derived to account for the boundary layer effect of tight reservoirs by adding a non-Darcy coefficient term. This non-Darcy equation describes the fluid flow more accurately for tight oil reservoir with low production rate and low pressure gradient. Both analytical and numerical solutions are obtained for the new non-Darcy flow model. First, a Buckley–Leverett-type analytical solution is derived with this non-Darcy flow equation. Then, a numerical model has been developed for implementing this non-Darcy flow model for accurate simulation of multidimensional porous and fractured tight oil reservoirs. Finally, the numerical studies on an actual field example in China demonstrate the non-negligible effect of boundary layer on fluid flow in tight formations.     

关于二相流、多相流、多流体模型和非牛顿流等概念的探讨

本文分析了单相流、二相流和多相流等概念上的差异,也分析了单流体模型、双流体模型和多流体模型等概念上的差异,指出前面三种概念是按流动介质的客观物理构成划分的,而后者是按主观采用的研究方法划分的．目前这些概念在使用中存在一些混乱,如二相流与多相流,多相流与多流体模型等．本文还研究了扩散模型、非牛顿流模型和颗粒流模型等,指出前两种模型在分类上属于单流体模型,分析了非牛顿流模型、扩散模型和双（多）流体模型的特点和应用范围,最后,以泥石流为例讨论了以上概念的应用．      

液体双折射方法及其在流场测量中的应用

本文研究了流体双折射的实验方法及双折射液体的基本性质。计论了两种力学—光学关系式之间的一致性。从理论及实验上证实了用流体双折射方法进行二维流场测量的优越性。提出了实验数据的处理方法。给出了几种流场的等色线图。定量分析了两个流场。     

Cavitational Flow and Magnetohydrodynamics

The study of cavitational flow is formulated as a free boundary problem for the Laplace equation in three dimensions. Constant pressure free streamlines are determined by a variational principle for the virtual mass that can be deduced from a similar result for vortex sheets. Steepest descent applied to minimization of the potential energy suggests a natural iterative scheme to calculate the shape of the cavity bounded by the free streamlines. Numerical methods enable one to estimate the drag and the geometry of the flow. Another version of the variational principle plays an important role in plasma physics and the theory of magnetic fusion. This method has significant applications to stellarators, which are toroidal configurations for confinement of hot plasma whose three-dimensional geometry leads to interesting mathematical problems. Large computer codes implementing the theory play a central role in the design of thermonuclear reactors.     

流动聚焦实验

介绍了一种制备微纳米量级颗粒的流动聚焦技术,它的最基本的特点是从毛细管流出的液体由高速运动气体驱动经小孔聚焦形成稳定的锥,锥顶端射出的微射流因不稳定性破碎成小颗粒.实验在自行设计的装置上完成.分析了流动聚焦技术中影响锥-射流以及颗粒形貌的因素,总结了过程中装置的结构参数以及气体压力降、液体流量和物性等参数对射流的直径的影响.结果显示该技术制备的颗粒单分散性好,直径达到微米和亚微米量级,在工业方面有重大应用前景.     

The Flow Problem of Fluids Flow in a Fractal Reservoir with Double Porosity

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Upscaling Non-Darcy Flow

We consider upscaling of non-Darcy flow in heterogeneous porous media. Our approach extends the pressure-based numerical homogenization procedure for linear Darcy flow, due to Durlofsky, to the nonlinear case. The effective coefficients are not constants but rather mildly varying functions of prevailing gradients of pressure. The upscaled model approximates the fine grid model accurately and, in some cases, more accurately than what is expected for Darcy flow; this is due to the non-Darcy effects which suppress heterogeneity. We provide comparisons of alternative approaches as well as consider several variants of numerical realizations of the non-Darcy flow model. Numerical results show effectiveness of the upscaling procedure.     

Flow Features in a Fully Developed Ribbed Duct Flow as a Result of MILES

The present contribution describes the topology associated with the turbulent flow in a square duct partially blocked by a rib of square section mounted on a single wall. The flow is simulated by means of a MILES method and the resulting velocity fields are analysed using the concepts of stream surface, vortex core detection, wall streamline and bifurcation line. Instantaneous and time averaged coherent structures are extracted applying the second scalar invariant of the velocity gradient tensor (so-called $Q$ criterion), respectively, to the instantaneous and time averaged velocity fields. This postprocessing reveals significant 3D effects induced by the geometry, namely the influence of the side walls, which is clearly identified. The combination of the different visualisation techniques offers a complement to the standard representation based on Eulerian statistics and contributes to a deeper understanding of this complex flow.     

The Geometry of Barotropic Flow

In this paper we construct a new noninvariant Riemannian metric on the semidirect product of the diffeomorphism group of a manifold and the space of positive functions on that manifold, which has the property that certain geodesics give the equations of barotropic fluid mechanics. We compute a formula for its curvature, analyze the sign of the curvature, and determine directly the growth of Jacobi fields in a few special cases.     

Flow stability between separator plates

The flow of a viscous fluid in the narrow gap between two rapidly rotating coaxial cones has been examined in [1]. A similar motion takes place between the plates of a separator in various branches of engineering for the separation of emulsions and clarification of suspensions. The laminar flow regime is necessary for normal operation of the plate separator. The present paper studies the hydrodynamic stability of the interplate flow and suggests a specific criterion which is consistent with the practice of the design and operation of separators and which has a simple physical meaning.     

Principles of Integrated Flow Modeling

Integrated flow modeling is the combination of a traditional flow simulator with a petrophysical model. By combining a petrophysical model with a traditional flow model, it is possible to perform calculations that improve our ability to monitor fluid movement in porous media. This paper outlines the formulation of an integrated flow model IFLO and its multi-variable, Newton–Raphson IMPES solution procedure. The benefits of integrated flow modeling and the underlying principles involved in the integration of a flow model with a petrophysical model are presented. Results from the IFLO model are used to illustrate the principles.     

Flow Performance of Perforated Completions

A powerful approximate method for modeling the flow performance of perforated completions under steady-state conditions has been developed. The method is based on the representation of the perforation tunnels surrounding a wellbore by the equivalent elongated ellipsoids. This makes possible an analytical treatment of a 3D problem of steady-state flow in a porous medium with complex multiple production surfaces. The solution is obtained for a vertical wellbore fully penetrating through a horizontal formation in the presence of permeability anisotropy. The perforations are oriented horizontally, arranged in almost arbitrary patterns, repeating along the wellbore, and may have different lengths and shapes. The hydraulic resistances of perforations flowing inside them as well as the crushed zones around them with impaired permeability are neglected. The approximate solution found was verified by comparing the previous analytical/numerical solutions for a small number of perforations. This approach allows one to determine the local skin or the effective wellbore radius for any perforated interval, which can then be integrated into the conventional calculations of well productivity and used for the perforating gun selection during perforation job design.     

Flow visualization by redox-reaction dyes

Colour generation by a direct oxidation or reduction reaction at an electrode in aqueous solution does not generate gas, as is necessary to obtain a pH change. Flow visualization in a closed apparatus or porous medium is therefore possible without the interference of bubbles or a detectable density change. A series of anthraquinone sulphonic acid salts has been found that produce good colours upon reduction at a cathode in mildly alkaline solution. Some are soluble enough to be used in salt gradients and react well below the potential needed to evolve hydrogen, so the electrode remains in stable condition. Platinum is not necessary for the cathode, is indeed undesirable. A number of commercial redox dyes that produce colour upon oxidation were also tested. The most practical is methylene blue, which needs a powerful reducing agent to be decolourised. It is instantly reoxidised by dissolved air, a feature that may be useful in studies of gas/liquid transfer or entrainment across stratified boundaries.     

Flow focusing and jet instability

流动聚焦是一种有效的微细射流产生方法,其原理可以描述为从毛细管流出的流体由另一种高速运动的流体驱动,经小孔聚焦后形成稳定的锥–射流结构,射流因不稳定性破碎成单分散的液滴.自从1998年流动聚焦被提出以来,陆续发展了单轴流动聚焦、电流动聚焦、复合流动聚焦和微流控流动聚焦等毛细流动技术.这些技术稳定、易操作、没有苛刻的环境条件的要求,能够制备单分散性较好的微纳米量级的液滴、颗粒和胶囊,在科学研究和实际应用中具有重要价值.流动聚焦涉及了多尺度、多界面和多场耦合的复杂流体力学问题,其中稳定的锥形是形成稳定射流的先决条件,过程参数是影响射流界面扰动发展的关键因素,而射流不稳定性分析是揭示射流破碎的最主要理论工具.该文回顾了近二十年来不同结构流动聚焦的研究进展,概述这些技术涉及的过程控制、流动模式、尺度律和不稳定性分析等关键力学问题,总结射流不稳定性的研究方法和已取得的成果,最后展望流动聚焦的研究方向和应用前景.