非线性流体-刚体结构相互作用问题的一种数值模拟方法

给出了一种模拟非线性流体-刚体结构相互作用问题的数值方法．文中假定结构承受大的刚体运动，流体流动受非线性有粘或无粘的场方程支配并满足自由表面和两相耦合界面上的非线性边界条件，利用任意拉氏-欧氏（ALE）网格系统构造了数值模型．采用所探讨的多块数值格式，允许可动重造网格间有独立的相对运动，从而克服了流体网格与固体大运动匹配的困难．通过数值离散化，导出了描述非线性流固耦合动力学的数值方程并应用耦合迭代过程对其作了求解．通过算例，说明了所提出数值模型的应用．  

Renormalization calculations of immiscible flow

Oil reservoir properties can vary over a wide range of length scales. Reservoir simulation of the fluid flow uses numerical grid blocks have typical lengths of hundreds of metres. We need to specify meaningful values to put into reservoir engineering calculations given the large number of heterogeneities that they have to encompass. This process of rescaling data results in the calculation of effective or pseudo rock properties. That is a property for use on the large scale incorporating the many heterogeneities measured on smaller scales.For single phase flow, a variety of techniques have been tried in the past. These range from very simple statistical estimates to detailed numerical simulation. Unfortunately, the simple estimates tend to be inaccurate in real applications and the numerical simulation can be computationally expensive if not impossible for very fine grid representations of the reservoir. Likewise, pseudorelative permeabilities are time consuming to generate and often inaccurate.Real-space renormalization is an alternative technique which has been found to be computationally efficient and accurate when applied to single-phase flow. This approach solves the problem regionally rather than trying to solve the whole problem in one simulation. The effective properties of small regions are first calculated and then placed on a coarse grid. The grid is further coarsened and the process repeated until a single effective property has been calculated. This has enabled calculation of effective permeability of extremely large grids to be performed, up to 540 million grid blocks in one application.This paper extends the renormalization technique to two-phase fluid flow and shows that the method is at least 100 times faster than conventional pseudoization techniques. We compare the results with high resolution numerical simulation and conventional pseudoization methods for three different permeability models. We show that renormalization is as accurate as the conventional methods when used to predict oil recovery from heterogeneous systems.  

Influences of random disturbances on simultaneous resonances of nonlinear coupling systems

The influences of random disturbances on simultaneous resonances of nonlinear coupling systems are dealt with in this paper. First, the approximate probability distribution of behavior of nonlinear system is presented through using the stochastic averaging method. Secondly, using the Monte Carlo numerical simulation method, we study the above mentioned system. Both conclusions are nearly same. It is confirmed that the stochastic averaging method is one of efficient methods for dealing with nonlinear random vibration problems.  

Dissipative free-surface solver for potential flow around hydrofoil distributed with doublets

A doublet integral equation is formulated for the two-dimensional dissipative potential flow around a hydrofoil submerged below a free-water surface. The free-water surface is assumed to involve energy dissipation, and thus it is the source of damping. A doublet panel method is developed from incorporation of the dissipative Green function approach and the doublet distributions on the hydrofoil surface. Numerical computations are implemented, and the derived numerical results are in good agreement with analytic solutions and experimental measurements.  

An anti‐diffusive volume of fluid method for interfacial fluid flows

A volume of fluid (VOF) method is developed combining a first‐order limited downwind scheme with higher order accurate schemes. The method is characterized by retaining a sharp fluid interface and a reduction in numerical diffusion near the interface, but avoids complicated geometrical reconstruction as occurs in most volume tracing algorithms. To demonstrate the accuracy and robustness of the method, a selection of numerical experiments are presented involving a pure advection problem, a water wave impact caused by a dam breaking and liquid sloshing in a partially filled tank. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.