Echo-Planar Imaging of Porous Media with Spatial Resolution below 100 μm

A modified version of the echo-planar imaging technique incorporating a Carr–Purcell train of 180° rf pulses (PEPI) has been implemented on a standard spectrometer. It is demonstrated that artifacts in the image due to cumulative errors in the rf field can be reduced by replacing each 180° pulse by a composite sequence of three rf pulses. Artifact-free 3D images at 94 μm voxel resolution are obtained within 15 min. This technique has been applied to study the drying process in an initially water-saturated model porous medium with characteristicT^*₂of order 700 μs.     

Transport of Nonautonomous Solitons in Two‐Dimensional Disordered Media

Transport of localized nonlinear excitations in disordered media is an interesting and important topic in modern physics. Investigated in this work is transport of two‐dimensional (2D) solitons for a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with inhomogeneous nonlocality and disorder. We use the variational method to show that, the shape (size) of solitons can be manipulated through adjusting the nonlocality, which, in turn, affects the soliton mobility. Direct numerical simulations reveal that the influence of disorder on the soliton transport accords with our analysis by the variational method. Besides, we have demonstrated an anisotropic transport of the 2D nonautonomous solitons as well. Our study is expected to shed light on modulating solitons through material properties for specifying their transport in disordered media.     

烧结/堆积床多孔介质流动沸腾换热实验研究

本文实验对比研究了0.3 mm、0.5mm、0.7 mm三种粒径的铜颗粒烧结与堆积床多孔介质中的流动沸腾换热,主要研究了入口流速、热流密度、加热方位及粒径对流动沸腾换热的影响,以及多孔介质中的沸腾滞后。实验结果表明:大入口流速、低热流密度、下方加热以及小粒径时加热壁面的过热度较低,即有利于沸腾换热;本实验所用烧结多孔介质壁面过热度高于堆积床多孔介质,其原因是内部含有闭孔。     

多孔媒质中液体的电声耦合

多孔媒质是充满连通管道的物质。在研究多孔媒质中液体的流动现象时发现，当流体相对于固－液界面处的带电表面运动时，由于液流和电磁场的耦合就出现了电声耦合（电动）现象。电动法同地震法结合，有可能成为油藏探测的潜在方法。     

多孔介质流动沸腾微观模型实验研究

多孔通道内流动沸腾广泛应用于热管、高效换热器、航天热防护等领域,认识孔隙尺度相变典型行为及特点有助于理解多孔介质内沸腾传热机理,进而改进多孔介质内部流体相变模型。基于此,本文搭建了二维多孔介质内流动沸腾实验台,对微米级多孔通道内部流动沸腾现象及气泡行为进行研究。实验发现在毛细力、黏性力和惯性力的共同作用下,多孔介质内的流动沸腾形态显著区别于直通道内的沸腾,存在局部气泡堵塞、合并和液膜蒸干、再润湿等行为。该研究有助于增强对相变过程的理解,并为多孔结构优化设计提供指导。     

基于格子Boltzmann方法的多孔介质流动模拟GPU加速

利用NVIDIA CUDA平台,在GPU上结合稀疏存贮算法实现基于格子Boltzmann方法的孔隙尺度多孔介质流动模拟加速,测试该算法相对基本算法的性能.比较该算法在不同GPU上使用LBGK和MRT两种碰撞模型及单、双精度计算时的性能差异.测试结果表明在GPU环境下采用稀疏存贮算法相对基本算法能大幅提高计算速度并节省显存,相对于串行CPU程序加速比达到两个量级.使用较新构架的GPU时,MRT和LBGK碰撞模型在单、双浮点数精度下计算速度相同.而在较上一代的GPU上,计算精度对MRT碰撞模型计算速度影响较大.     

A New Numerical Solution of Fluid Flow in Stratigraphic Porous Media

A new numerical technique based on a lattice-Boltzmann method is presented for analyzing the fluid flow in stratigraphic porous media near the earth's surface. The results obtained for the relations between porosity, pressure, and velocity satisfy well the requirements of stratigraphic statistics and hence are helpful for a further study of the evolution of fluid flow in stratigraphic media.     

Pattern Structure of Deterministic Displacement in Random Porous Media with Dispersion Effect

A new model-model of random porous mediz degradation via several fluid displacing,freezing,and thawing cycles is introduced and investigated in this paper.The fluid transport is based on the deterministic method with dispersion effect.The result shows that the topology and the geometry of the porous media have a strong effect on displacement processes.The cluster size of viscous fingering (VF) pattern in percolation cluster increases with the increase of iteration parameter n.When iteration parameter n≥10,VF pattern does not change with n.We find that the displacement fluid forms trapping regions in random porous media with dispersion effect.And the trapping regions will expand with the increasing of the iteration parameter n.When r (throat size)→1 and n≥5,the peak value of the distribution Nmat(r) increases as n increases,where Nmat(r) is the normalized distribution of throat sizes after different displacement-damages but before freezing.The peak value of the distribution Ninv(r) reaches a maximum when n≥10 and r=1,where Ninv(r) is the normalized distribution of the size of invaded throat.This result is different from invasion percolation.It is found that the sweep efficiency E increases along with the increasing of iteration parameter n and decreases with the network size L,and E has a minimum as L increases to the maximum size of lattice.The VF pattern in percolation cluster has one frozen zone and one active zone.     

气体和气溶胶在多孔介质中迁移的数值模拟

为了研究多孔介质对气体和气溶胶的封闭能力,用数值方法模拟了气体和气溶胶在多孔介质中的迁移.考虑了渗透、吸附过滤、扩散、热传导等因素,在柱对称坐标下用双孔双渗模型进行了数值模拟,并与实验结果进行了比较.计算结果显示,多孔介质对气溶胶有较强的阻挡作用,模拟实验结果也证明了这一点.     

Lattice Boltzmann方法模拟多孔介质Klinkenberg效应

格子Boltzmann数值模拟方法是研究复杂的多孔介质结构特别是Klinkenberg效应的有效方法之一，对处理复杂边值问题尤其有效，用格子Boltzmann方法研究了气流穿越多孔介质问题，并将数值计算结果与实验结果进行了比较，结果表明格子Boltzmann方法是数值模拟气流穿越多孔介质问题的有效方法之一。     

岩心孔隙介质中流体的核磁共振弛豫

弛豫时间是核磁共振研究中的一个重要参数,岩心孔隙介质流体的弛豫过程是自由流体弛豫机制、表面弛豫机制和流体的扩散弛豫机制共同作用的结果,它包含了丰富的孔隙和流体本身的信息. 弛豫时间和自扩散系数的测量及对弛豫时间的分析是核磁共振技术应用于岩心分析和石油勘测的重要内容.     

Natural Convection of Temperature-Sensitive Magnetic Fluids in Porous Media

In this article, natural convection of a temperature-sensitive magnetic fluid in a porous media is studied numerically by using lattice Boltzmann method. Results show that the heat transfer decreases when the ball numbers increase. When the magnetic field is increased, the heat transfer is enhanced; however, the average wall Nusselt number increases at small ball numbers but decreases at large ball numbers due to the induced flow being more likely confined near the bottom walls with a high number of obstacles.     

气体动理学格式模拟多孔介质流动的可行性

将气体动理学格式（GKS）拓展到模拟多孔介质内的低速渗流,并检验在孔隙尺度上模拟不可压缩低速流动的可行性与有效性.结果表明：GKS具有二阶空间精度,能够较精确地计算多孔介质的渗透率;相比于单松弛格子玻尔兹曼方法,GKS能够精确实现壁面无滑移边界条件,从而正确反映渗透率与黏性无关的特性;对于Berea砂岩切片结构中的复杂流动,模拟结果与实验吻合较好,能较精确地计算渗透率.给出GKS模拟达西渗流的马赫数选取准则,为研究多孔介质流动提供新的工具.     

Study of the Imbibition Phenomenon in Porous Media by the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic (SPH) Method

Over recent decades, studies in porous media have focused on many fields, typically in the development of oil and gas reservoirs. The imbibition phenomenon, a common mechanism affecting multi-phase flows in porous media, has shown more significant impacts on unconventional reservoir development, where the effect of the pore space increases with decreased pore sizes. In this paper, a comprehensive SPH method is applied, considering the binary interactions among the particles to study the imbibition phenomenon in porous media. The model is validated with physically meaningful results showing the effects of surface tension, contact angle, and pore structures. A heterogeneous porous medium is also constructed to study the effect of heterogeneity on the imbibition phenomenon; it can be referred from the results that the smaller pore throats and wetting surfaces are more preferred for the imbibition. The results show that the SPH method can be applied to solve the imbibition problems, but the unstable problem is still a sore point for the SPH method.     

A low‐cost X‐ray‐transparent experimental cell for synchrotron‐based X‐ray microtomography studies under geological reservoir conditions

A new modular X‐ray‐transparent experimental cell enables tomographic investigations of fluid rock interaction under natural reservoir conditions (confining pressure up to 20 MPa, pore fluid pressure up to 15 MPa, temperature ranging from 296 to 473 K). The portable cell can be used at synchrotron radiation sources that deliver a minimum X‐ray flux density of 10⁹ photons mm^?2 s^?1 in the energy range 30–100 keV to acquire tomographic datasets in less than 60 s. It has been successfully used in three experiments at the bending‐magnet beamline 2BM at the Advanced Photon Source. The cell can be easily machined and assembled from off‐the‐shelf components at relatively low costs, and its modular design allows it to be adapted to a wide range of experiments and lower‐energy X‐ray sources.     

Unusual percolation threshold of electromagnetic waves in double‐zero medium embedded with random inclusions

By investigating the transmission of electromagnetic waves through random media composed of a random cluster of inclusions embedded in a “double‐zero” medium with simultaneously near‐zero permittivity and permeability, a percolation behavior of photons squeezing through the gaps between random inclusions with unity transmittance is observed. Interestingly, such a percolation exhibits a threshold induced by the long‐range connectivity of the “nonconducting” component in the transverse direction instead of the “conducting” component in the propagation direction, which is distinctly different from those in normal percolations. This unusual phenomenon, obtained by full wave simulations, is explained analytically through the introduction of a geometric concept hereby denoted as “free surfaces”. This work reveals a unique type of percolation threshold for electromagnetic waves with potential applications in energy harvesting, sensors and switches.

     

随机多孔介质的蒙特卡罗重构与渗流特性模拟

根据多孔介质微观结构的分形尺度标度特征,采用蒙特卡罗方法分别重构随机多孔介质的微观颗粒和孔隙结构,并基于分形毛管束模型研究多尺度多孔介质的气体渗流特性,建立多孔介质微观结构和宏观渗流特性的定量关系。结果表明：分形蒙特卡罗重构的多孔介质微细结构接近真实介质结构,气体渗流特性的计算结果与格子玻尔兹曼模拟数据较为吻合; 多孔介质气体渗透率随着克努森数的增加而增大,孔隙分形维数对于气体渗流的微尺度效应具有显著影响,而迂曲度分形维数对于表观渗透率和固有渗透率的比值影响可以忽略。提出的分形蒙特卡罗方法具有收敛速度快且计算误差与维数无关的优点,有利于深入理解多尺度多孔介质的渗流机理。     

Analysis for the Potential Function of the Digital Microstructure Image of Porous Media

Making use of the full information obtained in our previous discussions, a new analytical solutions for thepotential function of the digital microstructure image of porous media is reported in this paper. It is demonstrated that the distribution of potential function depends on the zeroth order Bessel function. All these will be helpful for analyzingthe similar subjects in porous media.     

具有多孔介质覆面层的柱体绕流流场分析

建立多孔结构覆面柱体绕流模型, 采用含Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer作用力项的格子Boltzmann方程对覆盖多孔介质层的方柱绕流进行数值模拟, 研究多孔介质对钝体绕流流场特性的影响。结果表明: 相比于不可渗透壁的柱体, 引入合适参数的多孔介质覆面层后可以有效降低其升力脉动幅值, 但阻力有所增加。同时, 较高雷诺数下多孔方柱的数值模拟表明: 多孔介质壁面使得尾迹区域的剪切层相距更远, 降低了尾流处湍动能, 并将雷诺应力的峰值移动到尾迹区域, 抑制了方柱两侧的动量交换, 使动量交换的位置发生在尾迹区域, 继而使得尾迹的涡街更加规则化。     

Analysis for the Potential Function of the Digital Microstructure Image of Porous Media

Making use of the full information obtained in our previous discussions, a new analytical solutions for the potential function of the digital microstructure image of porous media is reported in this paper. It is demonstrated that the distribution of potential function depends on the zeroth order Bessel function. All these will be helpful for analyzing the similar subjects in porous media.