Wave Reflection in Triclinic Crystalline Medium

In this paper, the reflection of a plane wave at a traction free boundary of a half -space composed of triclinic crystalline material is considered. It is shown that an incident plane wave generates three plane waves, namely quasi-P (qP), quasi-SV (qSV) and quasi-SH (qSH) waves governed by the propagation condition involving the acoustic tensor. A simple procedure is presented for the calculation of all the three phase velocities of these waves. It is demonstrated that the direction of particle motion is neither parallel nor perpendicular to the direction of propagation. A procedure is established for the calculation of the amplitude vector in terms of the phase velocity, the propagation vector, and the stiffness coefficients of the medium. Closed form solutions are obtained for the reflection coefficients of qP, qSV and qSH waves. Using the parameters of Vosges sandstone exhibiting triclinic symmetry, the graphical representations of the reflection coefficients due to an incident qP wave are given. It is observed that, in triclinic medium, the reflection coefficients are significantly different from those in an isotropic medium.     

Momentum and energy exchange in nonequilibrium multicomponent media

In multicomponent media, the equilibrium states are defined by thermodynamic equilibrium conditions in the form of the equalities between the pressures and temperatures of the components, the maximum entropy principle (or the free-energy minimum) for the mixture, and the equality of the velocities of the components. The conservation laws for the components allow for their interaction with each other in the form of forces and energy fluxes containing the differences of the velocities, pressures, and temperatures of the components. The form of momentum and energy exchange between each component and the continuum expressing the collective properties of the ensemble of components, is also considered. It is shown that these momentum and energy fluxes are different from zero only for the states of multicomponent media with velocity nonequilibrium.Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 7–15, January–February, 2005.     

Transformation of hanging discontinuities into vortex systems in a stratified flow behind a cylinder

The mechanisms of formation of hanging discontinuities, vortex dipoles, and vortex arrays in the wave wake behind a cylinder moving at a constant velocity in a stratified fluid are investigated using various schlieren methods. The existence of discontinuities is attributable to the distortion of the internal-wave phase pattern in the shear flow and to the varying stratification and subsequent interaction of the waves with the appearing nonuniformities. Hanging discontinuities and vortex systems are low-velocity analogs of shock waves. An analysis of the internal-wave pattern indicates that the values of the normal velocity component differ on the upper and lower edges of the discontinuities. A regime diagram for flows of this kind is given.     

Application of generalised effective-medium theory to transport in porous media

The use of effective-medium treatments to estimate bulk properties pertaining to transport (of, for example, fluids, heat, particles or electricity) through random composite media (such as reservoir rocks), is widespread. This is because they are relatively simple, often reasonably accurate (on occasion, remarkably so) and in many cases yield closed-form expressions for the properties concerned. However, the single-bond effective-medium treatment (EMT) of random resistor networks that has been used to determine transport coefficients for various transport problems in pore networks is limited to some special isotropic networks with nearest-neighbour connections. We demonstrate here that transport through two different fracture system models, with stress-induced anisotropy, can be treated using an EMT originally applied to anisotropic resistor networks. The main purpose of the present contribution, however, is to present a new, more general effective medium formalism applicable to networks of arbitrary topology. This new generalised EMT is used to obtain a new criterion for percolation of an arbitrary conducting network under random dilution. A specific application to unsaturated flow through a pore network with nearest- and next-nearest-neighbour connections is also given.     

Viscous coupling in two-phase flow in porous media and its effect on relative permeabilities

An idealized model of a porous rock consisting of a bundle of capillary tubes whose cross-sections are regular polygons is used to assess the importance of viscous coupling or lubrication during simultaneous oil-water flow. Fluids are nonuniformly distributed over tubes of different characteristic dimension because of the requirements of capillary equilibrium and the effect of interfacial viscosity at oil-water interfaces is considered. With these assumptions, we find that the importance of viscous coupling depends on the rheology of the oil-water interface. Where the interfacial shear viscosity is zero, viscous coupling leading to a dependence of oil relative permeability on oil-water viscosity ratio for viscosity ratios greater than one is important for a range of pore cross-section shapes and pore size distributions. For nonzero interfacial shear viscosity, viscous coupling is reduced. Using values reported in the literature for crude oil-brine systems, we find no viscous coupling.     

黏弹性饱和多孔介质中圆柱孔洞的频域响应

研究了无限黏弹性饱和多孔介质中圆柱孔洞(有衬砌)表面受轴对称简谐荷载和流体压力 作用下的频域响应问题. 引入Carcione提出的本构模型来描述介质的流变和松弛性质. 考 虑衬砌和介质的相对渗透性，孔洞处于半封闭状态，边界半透水. 引入两个势函数，在频域 中得到了应力、位移和超孔隙水压力响应解答. 并进行了算例分析，讨论了反映介质黏弹 性性质的最小质量因子，反映孔洞边界半透水性质的渗透性参数及衬砌和介质的相对刚度对 问题的影响. 分析结果表明：以上参数对圆柱孔洞的频域响应有很大影响.     

Problems of folding in the earth’s stratified crust

The problem of folding in the Earth’s stratified crust is addressed within the framework of solid mechanics. The history and formulation of the problem and approaches to its solution are briefly outlined. The initial stage of folding in strata with different mechanical properties is studied in detail using the piecewise-homogeneous medium model and the three-dimensional theory of stability. Conclusions of applied and fundamental importance are drawn from an analysis of solutions to a wide range of specific problems __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 3–44, February 2007.     

THERMAL CONSOLIDATION OF LAYERED POROUS HALF-SPACE TO VARIABLE THERMAL LOADING

An analytical method was derived for the thermal consolidation of layered, saturated porous half-space to variable thermal loading with time. In the coupled governing equations of linear thermoelastic media, the influences of thermo-osmosis effect and thermal filtration effect were introduced. Solutions in Laplace transform space were first obtained and then numerically inverted. The responses of a double-layered porous space subjected to exponential decaying thermal loading were studied. The influences of the differences between the properties of the two layers (e.g., the coefficient of thermal consolidation, elastic modulus) on thermal consolidation were discussed. The studies show that the coupling effects of displacement and stress fields on temperature field can be completely neglected, however, the thermo-osmosis effect has an obvious influence on thermal responses.     

固体、流体多相孔隙介质中的波动理论及其数值模拟的进展

简要回顾了两相或三相多孔介质中波动理论和数值模拟的研究历史和现状，着重介绍了用有限元方法对饱水土层中波动进行数值模拟的研究进展，并讨论了有待进一步研究的问题．     

A Directed Percolation Model for Clogging in a Porous Medium with Small Inhomogeneities

We propose a microscopic model based on directed percolation for the process of mechanical clogging of a porous medium by particles suspended in a fluid flow. Under appropriate conditions the deposited particles may form fractal clusters. A criterion for the occurrence of fractal clogging is presented. It links together the particle size and the pore size distribution. The effect of microscopic inhomogeneities is studied inside and outside the critical region using Monte Carlo calculations in two dimensions. The critical exponents remain unchanged because the perturbation induced by these inhomogeneities is irrelevant. The percolation threshold is found to shift to higher values almost linearly with increasing size of obstacles. For size distributed obstacles the arithmetic mean of the distribution is the only significant parameter which determines the shift. Type and broadness of the distribution have no influence. Also the percolation probability depends only on the mean even outside the critical region for all values of the occupation probability. Occupying the same fraction of the porous matrix, large obstacles cause more particles to deposit than small ones.