Dynamics of fluid circulation in coupled free and heterogeneous porous domains

Fluid flow in coupled free and porous domain, particularly when the porous medium is heterogeneous, is encountered in many hydro-environmental conditions, e.g., leakage from underground pipe, combined groundwater lake-subsurface interactions. One of the most difficult problems in the study of coupled flow behaviour has been the development of a universally applicable modelling scheme for combining the flow regimes. This is because the free/porous interfacial properties (e.g., shear-stress; velocity slip) that govern the coupled flow behaviour are difficult to determine experimentally under hydro-environmental conditions. On the other hand, the implications of various forms of heterogeneity in the porous media properties can be very different on the fluid-flow behaviour. Difficulties may also arise in direct coupling of the model equations that govern the fluid flow in the individual regions (e.g., Navier-Stokes for free-flow region and the Darcy's equation for the porous flow region). Consequently, models of coupled free and porous flow for hydro-environmental conditions are not very well developed at the moment. While there are some indications that fluids in coupled free and porous domains may circulate (i.e., development of flow cells), there is a lack of appropriate 3D analysis on how heterogeneities in porous media may affect such flow patterns. In this paper, we aim to analyse how porous media heterogeneity affects the dynamics of flow circulation in the porous side of a coupled free and porous domain. For this purpose, we analyse flow patterns in several model domains made up of two porous layers with differing permeabilities. The governing model equations are discretised and solved using the standard finite volume method on a staggered cell-centred mesh. The temporal discretisation is done using the explicit method. An in-house graphical user interface (GUI) has been created specifically to aid in the visualisation of otherwise complex flow patterns. The GUI contains many post-processing options and provides a comprehensive tool for the analysis of hydrodynamics and contaminant motion (not discussed in this paper) in coupled free and porous flow domains. This GUI is described in this paper briefly. The effects of altering the aspect ratio (i.e., multi-scale) of the domain on the coupled flow pattern have also been discussed.     

落水洞对裂隙-管道介质泉流量衰减过程影响的试验研究

岩溶裂隙-管道是我国西南地区的主要地下储水空间和导水通道,落水洞是岩溶地区临时性吸收地表水流的重要过水通道,在西南地区分布密集。开展落水洞大小对裂隙-管道介质中泉流量过程影响的研究,对指导岩溶水可持续开发利用和推动岩溶水研究具有深刻意义。文章研究了落水洞对泉流量衰减过程的影响,利用自制的裂隙-管道物理模型,模拟落水洞不同断面尺寸、填充程度下的泉流量衰减过程,由衰减曲线探求衰减系数受不同因子的敏感程度。试验表明:泉流量衰减过程可分为三个亚动态,大致符合指数型衰减。其中,第一亚动态的衰减系数受落水洞断面尺寸影响较大,落水洞断面尺寸越小,衰减系数越大;落水洞的填充程度越高,衰减系数越大。     

落水洞对裂隙-管道介质排水过程的影响

利用自行研制的裂隙-管道介质物理模型进行多组试验,探究落水洞对介质排水过程的影响。对裂隙-管道介质按照介质空隙结构特点进行分区,引入反映介质排水过程中水体排泄快慢的单位时间排水量,进而得到对应不同介质分区和介质整体的四个单位时间排水量。利用单位时间排水量分析九种落水洞横截面积对裂隙-管道介质排水过程的影响。结果表明:落水洞横截面积的增大对裂隙-管道介质结构的影响为增大其储水空间和导水空间;落水洞横截面积的增大会加快裂隙-管道介质的排水过程,排水过程对落水洞横截面积增大的响应在横截面积的增大量达到某一阈值后才会发生,该阈值和介质空隙结构有关;排水过程的三个不同阶段的阈值不同,末期的阈值小于初期、中期的阈值。     

An integrated radiotracer approach for the laboratory evaluation of scale inhibitors performance in geological environments

The applicability of a newly developed radiotracer technique as a reliable laboratory procedure for the evaluation of scale inhibitors performance to prevent mineral precipitation is demonstrated. The performance of two new environmentally friendly inhibitors to prevent calcite and barite scale was evaluated experimentally in connection with a standard phosphonate-type scale inhibitor using the radioactive tracer technology. The radiotracers ⁴⁷Ca and ¹³¹Ba were employed in order to monitor at real-time calcite and barite scale formation, respectively. The results show that the developed radiotracer technique can be established as a novel method for the determination of the minimum inhibitor concentration (MIC) under dynamic, reservoir conditions. In addition, the radioactive tritiated water (HTO) was used as a reference water tracer to identify the inhibitors’ properties, such as adsorption/desorption characteristics, in sandpack-flooding tests. Further issues regarding the implementation of the radiotracer technology for the laboratory evaluation of scale inhibitors performance are also discussed.     

地下水多孔介质中胶体与污染物协同运移规律研究进展

在总结国内外地下水中污染物运移规律研究的基础上,阐述了地下水多孔介质中胶体与污染物协同运移的研究进展。讨论了胶体运移的基本过程、相关机理,探究污染物-胶体-微生物(生物胶体)协同运移的作用方式、影响因素、实验分析、模型构造,并指出该领域目前研究存在的主要问题,以及对该领域研究趋势的展望。     

Explicit numerical simulation of suspension flow with deposition in porous media: influence of local flow field variation on deposition processes predicted by trajectory methods

A new explicit numerical simulation (ENS) method based on lattice-gas automata (LGA) is introduced here for the flow of solid/fluid suspensions with deposition in porous media. The ENS method explicitly resolves the dynamics of the individual solid particles and the suspending fluid in the domain defined by the pore walls and solid particle surfaces. After describing the new method, it is applied to the study of solid/fluid suspension flow with deposition in a constriction and in a model random porous solid. This study clearly demonstrates that the deposits strongly influence the local flow fields, which in turn affect the deposition process indicating that this interplay should be modelled if accurate results are desired from trajectory methods.     

THERMAL CONVECTIVE INSTABILITY IN TRANSLUCENT POROUS MEDIA WITH RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER

The onset of thermal convection in a translucent porous layer is considered. Attention is focused on the effect of radiative heat transfer on the critical Rayleigh-Darcy number and the convection cell shape. If we consider the contribution of radiative heat transfer, the basic temperature profile is non-linear and the thermal convective instability is influenced by the ratio of conduction to radiation heat flux, the temperatures at the boundary surfaces, and radiative parameters such as wall emissivity, scattering albedo and extinction coefficient as well as the usual Rayleigh-Darcy number. Effects of these parameters on the onset of convective instability are investigated with the help of linear stability theory employing the Darcy's law and the radiative transport equation simplified by the P₁ approximation. The increased effective thermal conductivity due lo the radiation inhibits the onset of convection and causes increased critical Rayleigh-Darcy number and decreased convection cell size. The results of the present work may be exploited to find out the optimal diameter of aerogel pellets and the air pressure in the double pane window filled with the translucent silica aerogel granules to suppress natural convection.     

利用钢渣研制多孔陶瓷滤球

本文利用炼钢厂钢渣，添加少量的天然矿物原料制备了气孔率58.21%、平均压碎强度18.94MPa的多孔陶瓷滤球.采用现代测试技术XRD、SEM对多孔陶瓷样品进行了相组成分析及显微结构观察.同时分析了用钢渣制作陶瓷滤球的可行性，展望了它的应用前景。     

基于Android的媒体共享系统设计与实现

为解决数字家庭中设备间媒体共享的问题,研究UPnP协议和UPnP AV架构,设计实现基于嵌入式智能终端的媒体共享系统。针对智能手机、平板电脑的便携特性,单独实现控制点功能,支持“推播”模式,支持智能移动设备单独做控制点的操作逻辑。核心功能模块采用native开发,上层采用Java进行界面控制,已在Android设备上成功部署。测试结果表明,该系统可以很好地实现局域网内的媒体资源共享,提升用户娱乐体验。     

基于解码缓冲信息的IPTV QoE策略

提供一种可在IPTV用户的终端接收设备上评测QoE(Quality of Experience)的方法。该方法通过实时监测设备上的解码缓存的状态以及缓存中的媒体丢失率作为参数,并基于统计和实验数据建立这些参数和QoE的函数关系,最终给出它们之间的推算公式来量化当前流媒体视频的QoE等级(MOS值)。考虑到终端设备(如IPTV机顶盒)的处理能力在应用中还会对相应方法做一些优化。