页岩水力压裂的关键力学问题

页岩气是指以吸附和游离时而还有流体相的形态状态赋存于泥页岩中的非常规天然气。页岩气开采成为我国绿色能源开发的新领域。尽管北美页岩气革命取得了成功,但目前仍仅有预期产量5~15%的油气采收率,问题出在什么地方？水力压裂被认为是提高采收率的关键一环,但水力压裂过程中复杂缝网的形成和力学控制机理尚不清楚,这给力学家提出了巨大的挑战和机遇。结合本课题组近期研究成果,本文从理论、计算和实验三个方面对页岩水力压裂中的关键基础力学问题进行介绍和总结。主要内容包括发展页岩人工裂缝扩展的大型物理模型实验,建立页岩本构模型和断裂力学理论,发展耦合断裂力学和流体力学的裂缝网扩展数值模拟方法。页岩水力压裂研究对发展断裂力学的实验技术、理论模型和数值模拟方法起到推动作用,对提高我国页岩气高效开采技术具有重要意义。     

流体力学问题的三次样条配置法

本文给出了三次样条配置法在流体力学问题数值解中的应用以及在这一领域的新进展。给出了流体力学方程中主要的样条函数关系和解算步骤。所有情形都是便于反演的三对角形矩阵。简要评述了SADI方法和样条方法在每一坐标方向的分步计算方法、截断误差和稳定性。给出了处理混合边界条件的一般公式。最后简要讨论了样条近似引起的数值弥散和耗散。      

Clifford algebra,theory of its function and their applicaton to mechanics

As is Wellknown in both elastic mechanics andfluid mechanics, the plane problems are more convenient than space problems.One of the causes is that there has been a complete theory about the complex Junction and the analytic junction, hut in space problems, the case is quite different.We have no effective method to deal with these problems.In this paper, we first introduces general theories of Clifford algebra.Then we emphatically explain Clifford algebra in three dimensions and establish theories of regular Junction in three dimensions analogically to analytic function in plane.Thus we extend some results of plane problem-la three dimensions or high dimensions.Obviously, it is very important for elastic and fluid mechanics.But because Clifford algebra is not a commutative algebra, we can’t simply extend the results of two dimensions to high dimensions.The left problems are yet to be found out.     

A particle finite element method applied to long wave run‐up

This paper presents a Lagrangian–Eulerian finite element formulation for solving fluid dynamics problems with moving boundaries and employs the method to long wave run‐up. The method is based on a set of Lagrangian particles which serve as moving nodes for the finite element mesh. Nodes at the moving shoreline are identified by the alpha shape concept which utilizes the distance from neighbouring nodes in different directions. An efficient triangulation technique is then used for the mesh generation at each time step. In order to validate the numerical method the code has been compared with analytical solutions and a preexisting finite difference model. The main focus of our investigation is to assess the numerical method through simulations of three‐dimensional dam break and long wave run‐up on curved beaches. Particularly the method is put to test for cases where different shoreline segments connect and produce a computational domain surrounding dry regions. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

物理增强的流场深度学习建模与模拟方法

流体运动理论上可用Navier?Stokes方程描述, 但由于对流项带来的非线性, 仅在少数情况可求得方程解析解. 对于复杂工程流动问题, 数值模拟难以高效精准计算高雷诺数流场, 实验或现场测量难以获得流场丰富细节. 近年来, 人工智能技术快速发展, 深度学习等数据驱动技术可利用灵活网络结构, 借助高效优化算法, 获得对高维、非线性问题的强大逼近能力, 为研究流体力学计算方法带来新机遇. 有别于传统图像识别、自然语言处理等典型人工智能任务, 深度学习模型预测的流场需满足流体物理规律, 如Navier?Stokes方程、典型能谱等. 近期, 物理增强的流场深度学习建模与模拟方法快速发展, 正逐渐成为流体力学全新研究范式: 根据流体物理规律选取网络输入特征或设计网络架构的方法称为物理启发的深度学习方法, 直接将流体物理规律显式融入网络损失函数或网络架构的方法称为物理融合的深度学习方法. 研究内容涵盖流体力学降阶模型、流动控制方程求解领域.      

New developments in the localized hybrid method of stress analysis

Developments of the localized hybrid method which combines an experimental technique, moiré interferometry, and a numerical method, finite-element analysis, are presented. In this localized hybrid method, the displacement fields which the moiré experiments provide in some local regions of interest are used as input data for finite-element stress analyses. Based on finite-element theory, several variations on this localized hybrid method, associated with different displacement boundary conditions, are developed. Applications and limitations of the localized hybrid method are discussed in detail. In particular, applications of the localized hybrid method of stress analysis are presented for three-dimensional problems in the mechanics of solids. It is shown that this localized hybrid analysis not only provides a powerful and efficient technique for the reduction of moiré experimental data, but also gives a good insight into the mechanics of the experimental observations.     

Atomistic phenomena in dense fluid shock waves

The shock structure problem is one of the classical problems of fluid mechanics and at least for non-reacting dilute gases it has been considered essentially solved. Here we present a few recent findings, to show that this is not the case. There are still new physical effects to be discovered provided that the numerical technique is general enough to not rule them out a priori. While the results have been obtained for dense fluids, some of the effects might also be observable for shocks in dilute gases.     

An existence theorem for the flow of a non-newtonian fluid past an infinite porous plate

Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics affords an excellent opportunity for studying many of the mathematical methods which have been developed to analyse non-linear problems in mechanics. The flow of an incompressible fluid of grade three past an infinite porous flat plate, subject to suction at the plate, is governed by a non-linear differential equation that is particularly well suited to demonstrate the power and usefulness of three such techniques. We establish an existence theorem using shooting methods. Next, we investigate the problem using a perturbation analysis. It is not clear that the perturbation solution converges and thus may not be the appropriate solution for a certain range of a material constant (which is not the perturbation parameter). Finally, we employ a numerical method which is particularly suited to the problem in question.     

Application of local co-ordinate systems to the solution of integral equations referred to plane fluid flow problems

Two-dimensional fluid flow problems expressed in terms of velocity potentials or stream functions are often summarized as boundary-value problems for the Laplace or Poisson equations, or the homogeneous or non-homogeneous biharmonic equations. Simple local co-ordinate systems have been applied to the solution of integral equations associated with these boundary-value problems. This procedure has been shown to be an efficient technique in the numerical solution of fluid flow problems.     

页岩气高效开采的力学问题与挑战

页岩气是指赋存于富含有机质泥页岩中以吸附和游离状态为主要存在方式的天然气,中国资源量丰富,地域分布广泛.页岩气开采能缓解我国常规油气产量不足、煤化石燃料引起环境污染等问题,已成为中国绿色能源开发的重要领域.尽管北美页岩气"革命"取得了成功,目前也仅有预期产量5%～15%的采收率.与北美地区相比,中国页岩气埋藏深,赋存条件差,自然丰度低,因此,高效开采面临更多的困难和挑战.近年来,围绕国家重大能源战略需求,瞄准技术发展前沿,学术界和工业界联合对页岩气高效开采的关键科学和技术问题展开研究.本文结合近三年四川、重庆地区的页岩气试验区块遇到的新问题,针对中国未来3 500 m以下深部开采的新挑战,如地质沉积、裂缝发育构造不同、上覆压力增加、水平应力场变化等新问题,介绍和总结了目前中国页岩气高效开采面临的力学科学问题,主要包括多重耦合下的安全优质钻完井力学理论和方法、水力压裂体积改造和多尺度缝网形成机制、多尺度渗流力学特性与解吸附机理等."深部页岩气高效开采"的研究面向国家重大能源需求,科学意义重大,工程背景明确,需要工程力学、石油工程、地球物理、化学工程和环境工程等多学科专家合作,开展理论研究、物理模拟、数值模拟及现场试验等综合应用基础研究,取得高效开采页岩油气理论与技术的突破.学科交叉是研究页岩气高效开采问题、突破技术瓶颈的桥梁,只有力学与石油工程、地球科学等学科实现深度交叉融合,才能更加有效地推动页岩油气等非常规油气资源的开发.     

An extended stochastic response surface method for random field problems

An efficient and accurate uncertainty propagation methodology for mechanics problems with random fields is developed in this paper. This methodology is based on the stochastic response surface method (SRSM) which has been previously proposed for problems dealing with random variables only. This paper extends SRSM to problems involving random fields or random processes fields. The favorable property of SRSM lies in that the deterministic computational model can be treated as a black box, as in the case of commercial finite element codes. Numerical examples are used to highlight the features of this technique and to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. A comparison with Monte Carlo simulation shows that the proposed method can achieve numerical results close to those from Monte Carlo simulation while dramatically reducing the number of deterministic finite element runs. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (10602036). The English text was polished by Yunming Chen.     

Direct perturbation method for reanalysis of matrix singular value decomposition

I.IntroductionMatrixsingularvaluedecomposition(SVD)isoneofthemostimportantandfundamentalcomputationalanalysistoolsformodernnumericallinearalgebra.ThematrixSVDhasverygoodnumericalstability,andsoitisthemostreliableandbeautifulnumericalanalysismethodinmanyth…     

煤炭地下气化关键力学问题的数值研究进展

煤炭资源的清洁高效利用已成为“双碳”背景下科学研究的重要方向和新课题.在众多相关技术中,煤炭地下气化技术近年来得到快速发展并展现出巨大潜力.然而,由于室内实验和现场试验的实施成本非常高,气化机理认识和控制运行工艺优化方面的研究均受到很大限制.近年来,运行成本低、操作简单、实施周期短的数值模拟方法成为重要的研究工具,得到越来越多的关注.由于煤炭地下气化过程极其复杂,数值模拟方法在数学建模和数值求解方面均面临巨大挑战.对此,本文开展了以下工作:对煤炭地下气化过程进行了详细分析,阐明各个运行空间的物质和关键问题,厘清煤炭地下气化的本质;归纳出流体动力学问题、热力学问题、材料应力问题以及化学反应动力学问题等4类关键力学问题;详细介绍每个关键力学问题数值研究的最新成果和发展历程;介绍煤炭地下气化数值研究的工程应用,并指出其发展趋势.本文工作对推动煤炭地下气化数值方法的发展以及指导我国煤炭地下气化先导试验设计和现场实施有积极的理论意义.     

UPWIND LOCAL DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHOD FOR SOLVING COUPLED VISCOUS FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER EQUATIONS

The differential quadrature method (DQM) has been applied successfully to solve numerically many problems in the fluid mechanics. But it is only limited to the flow problems in regular regions. At the same time, here is no upwind mechanism to deal with the convective property of the fluid flow in traditional DQ method. A local differential quadrature method owning upwind mechanism (ULDQM) was given to solve the coupled problem of incompressible viscous flow and heat transfer in an irregular region. For the problem of flow past a contraction channel whose boundary does not parallel to coordinate direction, the satisfactory numerical solutions were obtained by using ULDQM with a few grid points. The numerical results show that the ULDQM possesses advantages including well convergence, less computational workload and storage as compared with the low-order finite difference method.     

A projection method for the spectral solution of non‐homogeneous and incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

This paper is devoted to the development of a parallel, spectral and second‐order time‐accurate method for solving the incompressible and variable density Navier–Stokes equations. The method is well suited for finite thickness density layers and is very efficient, especially for three‐dimensional computations. It is based on an exact projection technique. To enforce incompressibility, for a non‐homogeneous fluid, the pressure is computed using an iterative algorithm. A complete study of the convergence properties of this algorithm is done for different density variations. Numerical simulations showing, qualitatively, the capabilities of the developed Navier–Stokes solver for many realistic problems are presented. The numerical procedure is also validated quantitatively by reproducing growth rates from the linear instability theory in a three‐dimensional direct numerical simulation of an unstable, non‐homogeneous, flow configuration. It is also shown that, even in a turbulent flow, the spectral accuracy is recovered. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A finite element analysis of laminar unsteady flow of viscoelastic fluids through channels with non-uniform cross-sections

The effects of non-Newtonian behaviour of a fluid and unsteadiness on flow in a channel with non-uniform cross-section have been investigated. The rheological behaviour of the fluid is assumed to be described by the constitutive equation of a viscoelastic fluid obeying the Oldroyd-B model. The finite element method is used to analyse the flow. The novel features of the present method are the adoption of the velocity correction technique for the momentum equations and of the two-step explicit scheme for the extra stress equations. This approach makes the computational scheme simple in algorithmic structure, which therefore implies that the present technique is capable of handling large-scale problems. The scheme is completed by the introduction of balancing tensor diffusivity (wherever necessary) in the momentum equations. It is important to mention that the proper boundary condition for pressure (at the outlet) has been developed to solve the pressure Poisson equation, and then the results for velocity, pressure and extra stress fields have been computed for different values of the Weissenberg number, viscosity due to elasticity, etc. Finally, it is pertinent to point out that the present numerical scheme, along with the proper boundary condition for pressure developed here, demonstrates its versatility and suitability for analysing the unsteady flow of viscoelastic fluid through a channel with non-uniform cross-section.     

Flow simulation on moving boundary‐fitted grids and application to fluid–structure interaction problems

We present a method for the parallel numerical simulation of transient three‐dimensional fluid–structure interaction problems. Here, we consider the interaction of incompressible flow in the fluid domain and linear elastic deformation in the solid domain. The coupled problem is tackled by an approach based on the classical alternating Schwarz method with non‐overlapping subdomains, the subproblems are solved alternatingly and the coupling conditions are realized via the exchange of boundary conditions. The elasticity problem is solved by a standard linear finite element method. A main issue is that the flow solver has to be able to handle time‐dependent domains. To this end, we present a technique to solve the incompressible Navier–Stokes equation in three‐dimensional domains with moving boundaries. This numerical method is a generalization of a finite volume discretization using curvilinear coordinates to time‐dependent coordinate transformations. It corresponds to a discretization of the arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian formulation of the Navier–Stokes equations. Here the grid velocity is treated in such a way that the so‐called Geometric Conservation Law is implicitly satisfied. Altogether, our approach results in a scheme which is an extension of the well‐known MAC‐method to a staggered mesh in moving boundary‐fitted coordinates which uses grid‐dependent velocity components as the primary variables. To validate our method, we present some numerical results which show that second‐order convergence in space is obtained on moving grids. Finally, we give the results of a fully coupled fluid–structure interaction problem. It turns out that already a simple explicit coupling with one iteration of the Schwarz method, i.e. one solution of the fluid problem and one solution of the elasticity problem per time step, yields a convergent, simple, yet efficient overall method for fluid–structure interaction problems. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Displacement of a Newtonian fluid by a non-Newtonian fluid in a porous medium

This paper presents an analytical Buckley-Leverett-type solution for one-dimensibnal immiscible displacement of a Newtonian fluid by a non-Newtonian fluid in porous media. The non-Newtonian fluid viscosity is assumed to be a function of the flow potential gradient and the non-Newtonian phase saturation. To apply this method to field problems a practical procedure has been developed which is based on the analytical solution and is similar to the graphic technique of Welge. Our solution can be regarded as an extension of the Buckley-Leverett method to Non-Newtonian fluids. The analytical result reveals how the saturation profile and the displacement efficiency are controlled not only by the relative permeabilities, as in the Buckley-Leverett solution, but also by the inherent complexities of the non-Newtonian fluid. Two examples of the application of the solution are given. One application is the verification of a numerical model, which has been developed for simulation of flow of immiscible non-Newtonian and Newtonian fluids in porous media. Excellent agreement between the numerical and analytical results has been obtained using a power-law non-Newtonian fluid. Another application is to examine the effects of non-Newtonian behavior on immiscible displacement of a Newtonian fluid by a power-law non-Newtonian fluid.