On localization in saturated porous continua

Localization in elastic-plastic saturated porous media is investigated here using a linear perturbation approach. The adopted localization criterion corresponds to unbounded growth of perturbations. The critical conditions are compared with those obtained by a classical band analysis. While for one phase materials these conditions coincide, in the present context the linear perturbation approach leads in the limit of unbounded growth to the singularity of the undrained acoustic tensor, while the band analysis leads to the singularity of the drained acoustic tensor. Some general results clarifying the hierarchy of these two conditions are established for a quite general set of constitutive equations.     

On the effective stress in unsaturated porous continua with double porosity

Using mixture theory we formulate the balance laws for unsaturated porous media composed of a double-porosity solid matrix infiltrated by liquid and gas. In this context, the term ‘double porosity’ pertains to the microstructural characteristic that allows the pore spaces in a continuum to be classified into two pore subspaces. We use the first law of thermodynamics to identify energy-conjugate variables and derive an expression for the ‘effective’, or constitutive, stress that is energy-conjugate to the rate of deformation of the solid matrix. The effective stress has the form , where σ is the total Cauchy stress tensor, B is the Biot coefficient, and is the mean fluid pressure weighted according to the local degrees of saturation and pore fractions. We identify other emerging energy-conjugate pairs relevant for constitutive modeling of double-porosity unsaturated continua, including the local suction versus degree of saturation pair and the pore volume fraction versus weighted pore pressure difference pair. Finally, we use the second law of thermodynamics to determine conditions for maximum plastic dissipation in the regime of inelastic deformation for the unsaturated two-porosity mixture.     

Saturated steam relative permeabilities of unconsolidated porous media

This paper presents a method and describes an experimental device for determining the steam-water relative permeabilites of unconsolidated porous media. The experimental conditions are as close as possible to those of geothermal reservoirs. The relative permeabilities have been obtained at 180 and 150?C. Their variations versus liquid saturation are quite classical. The air-water relative permeabilities have been measured also at room temperature. The values obtained under these three conditions are almost identical. However, the air-water relative permeability differs slightly from that of steam at 180 and 150?C. We think this discrepancy is acceptable in practice, as it is easier to determine the relative permeabilities for an air-water flow at room temperature than for a steam-water flow at high temperature and pressure.     

Principles of the analytic description of fluid flow in network models of porous media

A method of calculating the conductivity of capillary networks which combines percolation concepts of conductivity in the neighborhood of the flow threshold with the results obtained using the effective medium model is proposed. The conductivity calculated theoretically is compared with experimental data. Water and oil phase permeabilities for combined flow through a capillary network are determined as an example of the use of the relations obtained. Moscow. Translated from Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 1, pp. 79–83, January–February, 2000.     

A constitutive approach to 3-d nonlinear fluid flow through finite deformable porous continua

The present paper proposes a thermodynamically consistent Forchheimer-type filter law for application in macroscopic porous media theories. The constitutive flow equation is thereby capable of describing the essential nonlinearities during 3-d fluid percolation through deformable porous solids. In particular, tortuosity effects, anisotropic properties, and the indispensable influence of finite distortions of the interconnected pore space are accounted for. However, the common shape of a Darcy-type relation is retained by assigning all nonlinearities to a general permeability tensor. Finally, to show the validity and applicability of the proposed formulation, the filter law is correlated with the data of permeability experiments on a high-porosity polyurethane foam and is used in a 3-d finite element analysis to simulate the pneumatic damping properties of the material.     

Multicontinuum description of percolating flow through periodic inhomogeneous porous media

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 112–119, November–December, 1988.     

Average description of immiscible fluid transport in porous media with small-scale inhomogeneity

Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Mekhanika Zhidkosti i Gaza, No. 6, pp. 92–99, November–December, 1989.     

钢-混凝土混合框架结构多尺度分析及其建模方法

多尺度计算是保证计算精度的同时最大限度降低计算代价的有效途径,在众多学科领域和工程问题中都得到了应用.在结构有限元多尺度分析领域,要解决的一个关键问题是如何实现局部微观模型与宏观结构模型之间的共同工作.为实现精细有限元模型在植入宏观结构模型时不同尺度模型界面的变形协调,提出有限元微观模型与宏观模型的界面连接方法,给出了轴向、横向和转角的约束方程.通过编制用户子程序,使该方法在有限元软件中得以实现,并通过简单的圆柱筒算例,对界面连接的合理性进行了验证.最后基于多尺度建模方法和复杂混合结构节点的精细模型,给出了钢-混凝土混合框架结构多尺度弹塑性时程分析的应用实例,结果表明多尺度计算可较好模拟节点的复杂边界条件.本文建议的界面连接方法可有效实现不同尺度模型界面的变形协调,为工程结构进行多尺度提供了条件.     

On the thermodynamics of viscoelastic continua

Summary The thermodynamic foundations of a theory of permanent deformations are considered: in the axioms, an appropriate definition of free enthalpy plays an essential rôle. Our developments are parallel (but in a certain sense dual) to those which occur in a theory of viscoelastic materials, due to Coleman and Noll.

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Sommario Si propone una trattazione dei fondamenti della teoria delle deformazioni permanenti (plastiche, dovute a scorrimento a caldo, ecc.), legata a certi postulati termomeccanici dove gioca ruolo essenziale una opportuna definizione di entalpia libera. La trattazione ha un carattere in certo senso duale di quella relativa ai continui viscoelastici di Coleman e Noll.

     

Spatial interaction in magneto-micropolar continua

Summary We consider a micropolar continuum, whose material points are endowed with magnetic moment, in the presence of a magnetic field within the approximation of the quasimagnetostatics. We deduce the balance equations by a suitable averaging technique and then we examine the compatibility of spatial interaction effects with thermodynamics. As a result, we show that such effects are confined to the constitutive equations for the dissipative stress_DT, the dissipative couple stress_Dm and the heat flux q. Moreover, as a consequence of the reduced dissipation inequality, a linear theory would account only for a dependence of_DT,_Dm, and q on the velocity gradient, the angular velocity, the gradient of the angular velocity, and on the temperature gradient.

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Sommario Si considera un continuo micropolarc, i cui punti materiali sono dotati di momento magnetico, in presenza di un campo magnetico nell'approssimazione della quasimagnetostatica. Dopo aver dedotto le equazioni di bilancio mediante un opportuno procedimento di media, si esamina la compatibilità tra effetti di interazione spaziale e seconda legge della termodinamica e si mostra che tali effetti possono essere presenti solo nelle equazioni costitutive per lo stress dissipativo (di Cauchy)_DT.lo stress dissipativo delle coppie_Dm e il flusso di calore q. Inoltre, in conseguenza della disuguaglianza di dissipazione ridotta, si osserva che una teoria lineare permetterebbe solo una dipendenza di_DT,_Dm, q dal gradiente di velocità, dalla velocità angolare, dal gradiente della velocità angolare e dal gradiente di temperatura.

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This work was supported by the «Gruppo Nazionale per la Fisica Matematica» of CNR.     

Measuring transport coefficients necessary for the description of coupled two-phase flow of immiscible fluids in porous media

In the simplist cases of coupled two-phase flow of immiscible fluids in porous media, the governing equations usually are written to show that there are four independent transport coefficients that implicitly have to be separately measured. The analysis presented here accordingly indicates that two types of known experiments involving two measurements apiece are needed at each fluid saturation condition in order to provide the necessary and sufficient information by which the unsteady as well as the steady states of ensuing transport processes can be established and characterized. Apparently, however, the fact that methodologies are already available for the required laboratory work either is not widely appreciated or it is being overlooked. For this reason and others, mention is made of the surprising fact that the experimental difficulties to be confronted in the actual study of coupled transport processes are no greater than those that have already been dealt with by the advocates of classical relative permeability theory (i.e. the traditionalists who simplistically model two-phase flow as though no coupling effects are involved).