Boundary domain integral method for transport phenomena in porous media

A boundary domain integral method (BDIM) for the solution of transport phenomena in porous media is presented. The complete, so‐called modified Navier–Stokes equations (Brinkman‐extended Darcy formulation with inertial term included) have been used to describe the fluid motion in porous media. Velocity–vorticity formulation (VVF) of the conservative equations is employed. In this paper, the proposed numerical scheme is tested on a particular case of natural convection and the results of flow and heat transfer characteristics of a fluid in a vertical porous cavity heated from the side and saturated with Newtonian fluid are presented in detail. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A finite volume–multigrid method for flow simulation on stratified porous media on curvilinear co‐ordinate systems

This paper presents a numerical study of infiltration processes on stratified porous media. The study is carried out to examine the performance of a finite volume method on problems with discontinuous solutions due to the transmission conditions in the interfaces. To discretize the problem, a curvilinear co‐ordinate system is used. This permits matching the interface with the boundary of the control volumes that interchange fluxes between layers. The use of the multigrid algorithm for the resulting systems of equations allows problems involving a large number of nodes with low computational cost to be solved. Finally, some numerical experiments, which show the capillary barrier behaviour depending on the material used for the different layers and the geometric design of the interface, are presented. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A domain decomposition method for modelling Stokes flow in porous materials

An algorithm is presented for solving the Stokes equation in large disordered two‐dimensional porous domains. In this work, it is applied to random packings of discs, but the geometry can be essentially arbitrary. The approach includes the subdivision of the domain and a subsequent application of boundary integral equations to the subdomains. This gives a block diagonal matrix with sparse off‐block components that arise from shared variables on internal subdomain boundaries. The global problem is solved using a biconjugate gradient routine with preconditioning. Results show that the effectiveness of the preconditioner is strongly affected by the subdomain structure, from which a methodology is proposed for the domain decomposition step. A minimum is observed in the solution time versus subdomain size, which is governed by the time required for preconditioning, the time for vector multiplications in the biconjugate gradient routine, the iterative convergence rate and issues related to memory allocation. The method is demonstrated on various domains including a random 1000‐particle domain. The solution can be used for efficient recovery of point velocities, which is discussed in the context of stochastic modelling of solute transport. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

AN h-TYPE ADAPTIVE FINITE ELEMENT

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饱和多孔介质大变形分析的一种有限元-有限体积混合方法

建立了饱和多孔介质大变形分析的一种有限元-有限体积混合计算方法.将饱和多孔介质视为由固体骨架和孔隙水组成的两相体,其基本方程包括动力平衡方程和渗流连续方程.基于u-p假定和更新的Lagrange方法,饱和多孔介质的动力平衡方程在空间域内采用有限元方法进行离散,而渗流连续方程在空阃域内则采用有限体积法进行离散.通过两个数值算例,一维有限弹性固结和动力荷载作用下堤坝动力响应的计算,验证了该方法的有效性.     

Numerical simulation and homogenization of two-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media

A mathematically rigorous method of homogenization is presented and used to analyze the equivalent behavior of transient flow of two incompressible fluids through heterogeneous media. Asymptotic expansions and H-convergence lead to the definition of a global or effective model of an equivalent homogeneous reservoir. Numerical computations to obtain the homogenized coefficients of the entire reservoir have been carried out via a finite element method. Numerical experiments involving the simulation of incompressible two-phase flow have been performed for each heterogeneous medium and for the homogenized medium as well as for other averaging methods. The results of the simulations are compared in terms of the transient saturation contours, production curves, and pressure distributions. Results obtained from the simulations with the homogenization method presented show good agreement with the heterogeneous simulations.     

流体饱和两相多孔介质拟静态问题的混合有限元方法

针对基于混合物理论的两相多孔介质模型,采用Galerkin加权残值有限元法,导出求解所静态问题的基于us-uF-P变量的混合有限元方程,由于系统方程的系数矩阵非定,进而针对该方程组提出了一种失代求解方法,并由分片试验得出节点压力插值函数的阶须低于固体相节点的位移插值函数的阶的结论,算例结果表明,采用基于u2-uF-p变量的混合法计算所得的固体相和流体相速度以及固体相的有效应力与罚方法一致,而压力值的粗度高于罚方法。     

可压缩流体流动多尺度混合有限元数值方法研究

可压缩流体是天然油藏中广泛存在的一种流体,研究其在多孔介质中的渗流规律对于油藏开发具有重要意义。本文采用多尺度混合有限元方法,对可压缩流体渗流问题进行了研究。考虑流体的可压缩性以及介质形变,推导得到了可压缩流体渗流问题的多尺度计算格式。数值计算结果表明,多尺度混合有限元适于求解非均质性和可压缩流问题,具有节省计算量、计算精度高等优势,对于实际大规模油藏模拟具有重要意义。     

A DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM WITH FINITE ELEMENT-BOUNDARY ELEMENT COUPLING

A domain decomposition algorithm coupling the finite element and the boundary element was presented. It essentially involves subdivision of the analyzed domain into sub-regions being independently modeled by two methods, i.e., the finite element method (FEM) and the boundary element method (BEM). The original problem was restored with continuity and equilibrium conditions being satisfied on the interface of the two sub-regions using an iterative algorithm. To speed up the convergence rate of the iterative algorithm, a dynamically changing relaxation parameter during iteration was introduced. An advantage of the proposed algorithm is that the locations of the nodes on the interface of the two sub-domains can be inconsistent. The validity of the algorithm is demonstrated by the consistence of the results of a numerical example obtained by the proposed method and those by the FEM, the BEM and a present finite element-boundary element (FE-BE) coupling method.     

3D simulation of radionuclide transport in porous media

We present an efficient and easily implementable finite volume method simulating radionuclide transport through highly heterogeneous grounds in three space dimensions. The numerical concentration of the transported chemicals are proved to remain nonnegative and stable. Then, we run a realistic test case in which some radioactive iodine I¹²⁹ particles are released from a leak in an underground nuclear waste disposal site. The question of whether the radionuclide invades the underground and reach the ground surface is investigated. Because of the 3D nature of the problem, a particular emphasis is made on the control of CPU time. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

随机有限元分析的二级区域分解并行求解算法

采用蒙特卡罗模拟(MCS)和加权积分法对二维问题进行随机有限元分析。尽管MCS方法对任何有确定解的问题都具有求解精度高的优点,但由于求解所需的计算量巨大使其应用受到限制。利用并行求解技术可有效地处理这种密集型计算问题。基于有限元分裂对接法(FETI)的并行特性并利用预处理共轭梯度法(PCG)的求解高效性,结合整体子区域实现(GSI-PCG)和FETI法,提出二级求解算法,并在工作站机群上实现了数值算例。算例计算结果表明本文GSI(PCG)-FETI算法具有较高的并行加速比和并行效率,具有良好的性能,可有效地进行二维问题的随机有限元分析。     

多孔介质在压力梯度作用下的热质耦合数值模拟

多孔介质干燥导致热质耦合传输过程。本文基于连续介质力学的宏观尺度,对多孔介质的热、湿和气三者耦合迁移进行数值模拟,研究压力梯度对热质传输的影响。多孔介质传质机理主要为水汽和空气的对流和扩散传输、吸附水在含湿量梯度作用下的自由扩散和其在温度梯度即Soret效应驱动下的流动。采用Galerkin加权余量的有限元方法,提出了...     

Implementation of Richardson extrapolation in an efficient adaptive time stepping method: applications to reactive transport and unsaturated flow in porous media

Environmental studies are commonly carried out through numerical simulations, which have to be accurate, reliable and efficient. When transient problems are considered, the validity of the solutions requires the calculation and management of the temporal discretization errors. This article describes an adaptive time stepping strategy based on the estimation of the local truncation error via the Richardson extrapolation technique. The time-marching scheme is mathematically based on this a posteriori error estimation that has to be gauged. General optimizations are also suggested making the control of both the temporal error and the evolution of the time step size very efficient. Furthermore, the algorithm connecting these methods is all the more interesting as it could be implemented in many computational codes using different numerical schemes. In the hydrogeochemical domain, this algorithm represents an interesting alternative to a fixed time step as shown by the various numerical tests involving reactive transport and unsaturated flow.     

Finite element analysis of wave propagation in fluid-saturated porous media

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An adaptive finite element method for the modeling of the equilibrium of red blood cells

This contribution is concerned with the numerical modeling of an isolated red blood cell (RBC), and more generally of phospholipid membranes. We propose an adaptive Eulerian finite element approximation, based on the level set method, of a shape optimization problem arising in the study of RBCs. We simulate the equilibrium shapes that minimize the elastic bending energy under prescribed constraints of fixed volume and surface area. An anisotropic mesh adaptation technique is used in the vicinity of the cell membrane to enhance the robustness of the method. Efficient time and spatial discretizations are considered and implemented. We address in detail the main features of the proposed method, and finally we report several numerical experiments in the two‐dimensional and the three‐dimensional axisymmetric cases. The effectiveness of the numerical method is further demonstrated through numerical comparisons with semi‐analytical solutions provided by a reduced order model. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于滑移界面耦合技术的旋转电机磁场仿真方法

提出了一种基于滑移界面耦合技术的旋转电机磁场仿真方法。首先,对旋转电机问题建立等效弱形式,用Lagrange乘子法施加Coulomb规范条件和滑移界面处的磁矢势连续性条件;然后,采用混合单元方法离散整个求解域中的未知量,采用棱边单元法离散滑移界面处的Lagrange矢量乘子,并采用多点约束法耦合滑移界面处的Lagrange标量乘子自由度,该方法无须在旋转电机模型的非匹配网格中构建生成树,即可自动保证磁矢势解的唯一性;最后,采用旋转线圈案例和简化的永磁同步电机案例验证了本文方法的有效性。     

An adaptive cut‐cell method for environmental fluid mechanics

In this work we present a numerical method for solving the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in an environmental fluid mechanics context. The method is designed for the study of environmental flows that are multiscale, incompressible, variable‐density, and within arbitrarily complex and possibly anisotropic domains. The method is new because in this context we couple the embedded‐boundary (or cut‐cell) method for complex geometry with block‐structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) while maintaining conservation and second‐order accuracy. The accurate simulation of variable‐density fluids necessitates special care in formulating projection methods. This variable‐density formulation is well known for incompressible flows in unit‐aspect ratio domains, without AMR, and without complex geometry, but here we carefully present a new method that addresses the intersection of these issues. The methodology is based on a second‐order‐accurate projection method with high‐order‐accurate Godunov finite‐differencing, including slope limiting and a stable differencing of the nonlinear convection terms. The finite‐volume AMR discretizations are based on two‐way flux matching at refinement boundaries to obtain a conservative method that is second‐order accurate in solution error. The control volumes are formed by the intersection of the irregular embedded boundary with Cartesian grid cells. Unlike typical discretization methods, these control volumes naturally fit within parallelizable, disjoint‐block data structures, and permit dynamic AMR coarsening and refinement as the simulation progresses. We present two‐ and three‐dimensional numerical examples to illustrate the accuracy of the method. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

非线性动力有限元重叠区域分裂的隐式并行算法

针对大规模结构非线性瞬态动力分析非常耗时,提出了相应的并行算法。该算法采用无条件稳定的Ne-wmark-β方法(平均加速技术)进行时间积分,并结合区域分裂技术进行分析。它不同于已有的采用非重叠区域的并行算法,而是采用重叠区域的并行算法。对给定结构有限元分析的质量、阻尼、刚度矩阵进行分裂可推出重叠区域分裂算法的计算公式。为改善每一步的求解,采用预估和校正子方案。编写了该算法的程序,在工作站机群上实现了数值算例,验证了算法的性能。计算结果表明该算法优于非重叠区域分裂算法。     

An efficient method for discretizing 3D fractured media for subsurface flow and transport simulations

We introduce a new method to discretize inclined non‐planar two‐dimensional (2D) fractures in three‐dimensional (3D) fractured media for subsurface flow and transport simulations. The 2D fractures are represented by ellipsoids. We first discretize the fractures and generate a 2D finite element mesh for each fracture. Then, the mesh of fractures is analyzed by searching and treating critical geometric configurations. Based on that search, the method generates a quality mesh and allows for including finer grids. A solute transport problem in fractured porous media is solved to test the method. The results show that the method (i) adequately represents the fractured domain by maintaining the geometric integrity of input surfaces and geologic data, (ii) provides accurate results for both simple and complex fractured domains, (iii) is insensitive to spatial discretization, and (iv) is computationally very efficient. For inclined and vertical fractures, analytical and numerical solutions are shown to be in good agreement. The method is therefore suitable to discretize fracture networks for flow and transport simulations in fractured porous media. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.