模拟裂隙多孔介质中变饱和渗流的广义等效连续体方法

描述了一种计算裂隙多孔介质中变饱和渗流的广义等效连续体方法。这种方法忽略裂隙的毛细作用,设定一个与某孔隙饱和度相对应的综合饱和度极限值,并假定：（1）如果裂隙多孔介质的综合饱和度小于该极限值,水只在孔隙中存在并流动,而裂隙中则没有水的流动;（2）如果综合饱和度等于或大于该极限值,水将进入裂隙,并在裂隙内运动。分析比较了等效连续体模型的不同计算方法,并给出了一个模拟裂隙岩体中变饱和渗流与传热耦合问题的应用算例。结果表明,所述方法具有一般性,可以有效地模拟裂隙多孔介质中变饱和渗流的基本特征。     

饱和多孔介质动力响应移动单元法分析

移动单元法在处理移动荷载下结构动力行为分析方面具有求解高效的优势,但目前针对饱和多孔介质动力响应的移动单元法的研究成果甚少。根据饱和多孔介质u-p格式动力控制方程,利用移动坐标系建立了饱和多孔介质瞬态及稳态动力控制方程的移动单元列式,通过编制相应的计算程序将计算结果与已有文献结果对比验证了算法的正确和有效性。基于移动单元法建立了移动荷载下饱和沥青路面-弹性基层系统计算模型,分析了移动荷载下该模型的瞬态动力响应规律,并与其稳态动力响应进行了对比分析,分析表明,其水动力特性较稳态响应呈现出明显的瞬态效应。基于稳态动力响应结果分析了荷载速度、排水边界、渗透系数对饱和沥青路面动力响应的影响规律,算例研究结果可以为分析水动力作用下沥青路面水稳定性功能损伤机制提供参考。     

含裂隙饱和多孔介质流-固耦合的扩展有限元分析

基于应力平衡方程、渗流连续性方程以及改进的Biot有效应力原理,建立了含裂隙可变形饱和多孔介质流-固全耦合问题的控制方程。流体在介质和裂隙中的流动均满足达西定律,得到的非线性全耦合方程不仅反映多孔介质内部物理量的耦合效应,还考虑介质与裂隙之间的耦合作用。扩展有限元法在处理含裂隙问题时具有独特的优势,采用普通有限元和扩展有限元法构建了数值计算体系。在进行空间离散时,介质内部的位移和孔隙压力均采用普通的有限元进行离散;裂隙处的位移模式引入扩展有限元中的两类附加位移函数,以反映裂隙面的位移强不连续性和裂隙端部的应力奇异性;引入孔隙压力加强函数,以体现裂隙法向孔隙压力的弱不连续特征。使用向后差分格式进行时间离散。算例验证了该模型和算法的正确性和有效性,分析了裂隙的存在对流体流动的延迟作用、裂隙中张开位移及孔隙压力等物理量的分布情况,讨论了渗透率、外部流量的改变对计算结果的影响。     

裂隙岩体渗流-传热耦合的复合单元模型

基于复合单元法建立了裂隙岩体渗流-传热耦合的复合单元模型。该模型前处理简便快捷,网格剖分不受限制,可依据裂隙的真实信息自动将其离散在单元内。其次,采用交叉迭代算法,对裂隙岩体的渗流场和温度场进行耦合分析,耦合算法不仅考虑了温度对流体运动黏度的影响,而且可计算裂隙中流体与相邻岩块间渗流-传热过程以及两者间的渗流量和热量交换。通过与已有近似解析解相比较,验证了复合单元耦合算法的可靠性。算例分析表明,渗流-传热耦合作用对裂隙岩体的渗流场和温度场均有一定的影响。分析了不同岩块热传导系数和裂隙开度对热能提取效率的影响,结果显示,岩块热传导系数越大、裂隙开度越大,低温流体从高温岩块中吸取的热能会较多,出口处流体温度下降得较快。     

裂隙岩体的多孔介质水力等效性研究

工程岩体中数量众多的裂隙面限制了离散裂隙网络模型在岩体渗流中的应用,迫使人们寻找能够用理论上成熟的等效连续介质模型替代,这就要求进行岩体多孔介质的水力等效性研究。在野外大量实测裂隙的基础上,进行裂隙密度、方位、大小、延续性、开度等几何参数的统计分析,以Enhanced Baecher模型建立离散裂隙网络随机模型,采用Monte-Carlo随机模拟方法进行三维裂隙网络随机模拟。在所生成的一定尺度的三维裂隙网络图基础上,给出计算研究域REV的方法,通过判断REV是否存在,确定能否用等效连续介质模型分析岩体渗流。     

频域内饱和多孔介质的参数反演分析

基于Biot理论,假定固体颗粒和孔隙内流体均不可压缩,建立了以固体骨架位移表示的的控制方程.考虑单层饱和多孔介质在竖向简谐荷载作用下一维动力响应,通过理论推导获得了骨架位移、应力以及孔隙流体压力等物理量的解析表达式.基于饱和土的简谐动力模型试验数据,与所得到的理论解答相结合,将饱和多孔介质材料参数反演问题归结为非线性多峰函数的最优化问题.全局最优解的求解采用了遗传算法和模拟退火算法,并通过试验和数值算例验证了所得材料参数的正确性.     

裂隙岩体不稳定温度场的复合单元算法研究

基于复合单元法,结合三维热传导-对流方程和“充填模型”,提出了裂隙岩体不稳定温度场的复合单元模型。该模型前处理简便快捷,计算网格生成时无需考虑裂隙的存在,网格剖分不受限制,随后利用复合单元前处理程序,依据裂隙的位置和方位将其自动离散在单元内。对常规热传导-对流方程进行自伴随性调整,应用变分原理,推导出裂隙岩体不稳定温度场的复合单元算法,该算法可分别计算出岩块子单元和裂隙的温度值,且可真实反映裂隙中水流与相邻岩块间的热能量交换规律。将复合单元数值模型计算的不稳定温度场结果与相应的实测数据进行对比分析可知,数值计算结果与实测数据基本一致,验证了裂隙岩体不稳定温度场复合单元算法的可靠性与有效性。算例分析表明,裂隙中水流与相邻岩块间有明显的热传导和热对流作用。     

饱和多孔介质表面透水性对表面波传播特性影响薄层分析法

饱和半无限体表面透水性会影响表面波（瑞利波和斯通利波）存在及其传播特性。在表面透水情况下,只有瑞利波存在,而在不透水情况,不仅有瑞利波而且还有斯通利波。表面波在工程勘探及声波测试中扮演很重要角色,因此,有必要研究表面透水性对表面波传播特性的影响。采用薄层法,将表面波频率方程根的搜索问题转换成求特征值问题。根据表面波沿深度衰减特性,从一组计算的特征值及特征向量中筛选出与表面波对应特征值、特征向量,由特征值得到表面波频率特性（频散和衰减特性）,由特征向量得到孔隙压力、骨架位移随深度变化,进而分析在表面不透水情况下瑞利波和斯通利波影响深度及程度。     

饱和多孔介质中胶体沉淀释放过程的数值模拟

地下环境中可移动的胶体能够促进强烈吸附的污染物质的运移,而胶体自身在运移过程中也会伴随发生沉淀、释放。根据高岭石胶体的土柱出流实验,对不同离子强度条件下胶体在饱和多孔介质中的沉淀和释放行为进行分析,并采用不同模型对其过程进行数值模拟。结果表明,离子强度是影响胶体沉淀和释放过程的重要因素,随着离子强度的增加,胶体的出流峰值逐渐降低,即胶体在多孔介质中的沉淀量逐渐增大,且沉淀速率系数K d 与离子强度成正相关;模型拟合的释放系数与NaCl 浓度显著相关,Grolimund 模型可以很好地模拟胶体的沉淀过程（R 2 >0.95）,但不能准确地模拟释放过程;而胶体运移方程耦合溶质运移方程能够模拟不同离子强度影响下胶体的释放过程（R 2 >0.9）     

基于多孔介质理论的饱和土中群桩水平振动特性

Dobry和Gazetas分析群桩振动特性的理论是将土体视为单相介质提出的,对于饱和土中桩-桩相互作用和群桩振动是否适用有待验证。将土体视为液固两相多孔介质,运用Novak薄层法和引入势函数的方法,求解了饱和土层的水平动力阻抗和自由场水平位移衰减函数,并在初参数法的基础上求解了桩-桩水平动力相互作用因子,运用基于动力相互作用因子的叠加原理对饱和土中群桩的水平振动进行了分析,并以3×3桩为例对群桩动力阻抗的主要影响参数进行了分析。提供了一种分析饱和土中桩-桩动力相互作用和群桩动力阻抗的新方法。     

A finite element method for modeling coupled flow and deformation in porous fractured media

Modeling the flow in highly fractured porous media by finite element method (FEM) has met two difficulties: mesh generation for fractured domains and a rigorous formulation of the flow problem accounting for fracture/matrix, fracture/fracture, and fracture/boundary fluid mass exchanges. Based on the recent theoretical progress for mass balance conditions in multifractured porous bodies, the governing equations for coupled flow and deformation in these bodies are first established in this paper. A weak formulation for this problem is then established allowing to build a FEM. Taking benefit from recent development of mesh‐generating tools for fractured media, this weak formulation has been implemented in a numerical code and applied to some typical problems of hydromechanical coupling in fractured porous media. It is shown that in this way, the FEM that has proved its efficiency to model hydromechanical phenomena in porous media is extended with all its performances (calculation time, couplings, and nonlinearities) to fractured porous media. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Theoretical and numerical study of the steady‐state flow through finite fractured porous media

This paper investigates the two‐dimensional flow problem through an anisotropic porous medium containing several intersecting curved fractures. First, the governing equations of steady‐state fluid flow in a fractured porous body are summarized. The flow follows Darcy's law in matrix and Poiseuille's law in fractures. An infinite transversal permeability is considered for the fractures. A multi‐region boundary element method is used to derive a general pressure solution as a function of discharge through the fractures and the pressure and the normal flux on the domain boundary. The obtained solution fully accounts for the interaction and the intersection between fractures. A numerical procedure based on collocation method is presented to compute the unknowns on the boundaries and on the fractures. The numerical solution is validated by comparing with finite element solution or the results obtained for an infinite matrix. Pressure fields in the matrix are illustrated for domains containing several interconnected fractures, and mass balance at the intersection points is also checked. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A fracture mapping and extended finite element scheme for coupled deformation and fluid flow in fractured porous media

This paper presents a fracture mapping (FM) approach combined with the extended finite element method (XFEM) to simulate coupled deformation and fluid flow in fractured porous media. Specifically, the method accurately represents the impact of discrete fractures on flow and deformation, although the individual fractures are not part of the finite element mesh. A key feature of FM‐XFEM is its ability to model discontinuities in the domain independently of the computational mesh. The proposed FM approach is a continuum‐based approach that is used to model the flow interaction between the porous matrix and existing fractures via a transfer function. Fracture geometry is defined using the level set method. Therefore, in contrast to the discrete fracture flow model, the fracture representation is not meshed along with the computational domain. Consequently, the method is able to determine the influence of fractures on fluid flow within a fractured domain without the complexity of meshing the fractures within the domain. The XFEM component of the scheme addresses the discontinuous displacement field within elements that are intersected by existing fractures. In XFEM, enrichment functions are added to the standard finite element approximation to adequately resolve discontinuous fields within the simulation domain. Numerical tests illustrate the ability of the method to adequately describe the displacement and fluid pressure fields within a fractured domain at significantly less computational expense than explicitly resolving the fracture within the finite element mesh. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A mixed solution for two-dimensional unsteady flow in fractured porous media

A mixed finite element–boundary element solution for the analysis of two-dimensional flow in porous media composed of rock blocks and discrete fractures is described. The rock blocks are modelled implicitly by using boundary elements whereas finite elements are adopted to model the discrete fractures. The computational procedure has been implemented in a hybrid code which has been validated first by comparing the numerical results with the closed-form solution for flow in a porous aquifer intercepted by a vertical fracture only. Then, a more complex problem has been solved where a pervious, homogeneous and isotropic matrix containing a net of fractures is considered. The results obtained are shown to describe satisfactorily the main features of the flow problem under study. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Transverse and longitudinal fluid flow modelling in fractured porous media with non‐matching meshes

A new discrete fracture model is introduced to simulate the steady‐state fluid flow in discontinuous porous media. The formulation uses a multi‐layered approach to capture the effect of both longitudinal and transverse permeability of the discontinuities in the pressure distribution. The formulation allows the independent discretisation of mesh and discontinuities, which do not need to conform. Given that the formulation is developed at the element level, no additional degrees of freedom or special integration procedures are required for coupling the non‐conforming meshes. The proposed model is shown to be reliable regardless of the permeability of the discontinuity being higher or lower than the surrounding domain. Four numerical examples of increasing complexity are solved to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the new technique when compared with results available in the literature. Results show that the proposed method can simulate the fluid pressure distribution in fractured porous media. Furthermore, a sensitivity analysis demonstrated the stability regarding the condition number for wide range values of the coupling parameter.     

Numerical study of two‐phase fluid distributions in fractured porous media

Two‐phase fluid distributions in fractured porous media were studied using a single‐component multiphase (SCMP) lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), which was selected among three commonly used numerical approaches through a comparison against the available results of micro X‐ray computed tomography. The influence of the initial configuration and the periodic boundary conditions in the SCMP LBM for the fluid distribution analysis were investigated as well. It was revealed that regular porous media are sensitive to the initial distribution, whereas irregular porous media are insensitive. Moreover, to eliminate the influence of boundaries, the model's buffer size of an SCMP LBM simulation was suggested to be taken as approximately 12.5 times the average particle size. Then, the two‐phase fluid distribution of a porous medium was numerically studied using the SCMP LBM. Both detailed distribution patterns and macroscopic morphology parameters were reasonably well captured. Finally, the two‐phase fluid distributions in a fractured porous media were investigated. The influence of the degree of saturation, fracture length, and fracture width on the fluid distributions and migration was explored. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Weak discontinuity in porous media: an enriched EFG method for fully coupled layered porous media

In this paper, a series of multimaterial benchmark problems in saturated and partially saturated two‐phase and three‐phase deforming porous media are addressed. To solve the process of fluid flow in partially saturated porous media, a fully coupled three‐phase formulation is developed on the basis of available experimental relations for updating saturation and permeabilities during the analysis. The well‐known element free Galerkin mesh‐free method is adopted. The partition of unity property of MLS shape functions allows for the field variables to be extrinsically enriched by appropriate functions that introduce existing discontinuities in the solution field. Enrichment of the main unknowns including solid displacement, water phase pressure, and gas phase pressure are accounted for, and a suitable enrichment strategy for different discontinuity types are discussed. In the case of weak discontinuity, the enrichment technique previously used by Krongauz and Belytschko [Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng., 1998; 41:1215–1233] is selected. As these functions possess discontinuity in their first derivatives, they can be used for modeling material interfaces, generating only minor oscillations in derivative fields (strain and pressure gradients for multiphase porous media), as opposed to unenriched and constrained mesh‐free methods. Different problems of multimaterial poro‐elasticity including fully saturated, partially saturated one, and two‐phase flows under the assumption of fully coupled extended formulation of Biot are examined. As a further development, problems involved with both material interface and impermeable discontinuities, where no fluid exchange is permitted across the discontinuity, are considered and numerically discussed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A model for moisture and heat flow in fractured unsaturated porous media

The present study investigates propagation of a cohesive crack in non‐isothermal unsaturated porous medium under mode I conditions. Basic points of skeleton deformation, moisture, and heat transfer for unsaturated porous medium are presented. Boundary conditions on the crack surface that consist of mechanical interaction of the crack and the porous medium, water, and heat flows through the crack are taken into consideration. For spatial discretization, the extended finite element method is used. This method uses enriched shape functions in addition to ordinary shape functions for approximation of displacement, pressure, and temperature fields. The Heaviside step function and the distance function are exploited as enrichment functions for representing the crack surfaces displacement and the discontinuous vertical gradients of the pressure and temperature fields along the crack, respectively. For temporal discretization, backward finite difference scheme is applied. Problems solved from the literature show the validity of the model as well as the dependency of structural response on the material properties and loading. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Modelling of steady‐state fluid flow in 3D fractured isotropic porous media: application to effective permeability calculation

In this paper, 3D steady‐state fluid flow in a porous medium with a large number of intersecting fractures is derived numerically by using collocation method. Fluid flow in the matrix and fractures is described by Darcy's law and Poiseuille's law, respectively. The recent theoretical development presented a general potential solution to model the steady‐state flow in fractured porous media under a far‐field condition. This solution is a hypersingular integral equation with pressure field in the fracture surfaces as the main unknown. The numerical procedure can resolve the problem for any form of fractures and also takes into account the interactions and the intersection between fractures. Once the pressure field and then the flux field in fractures have been determined, the pressure field in the porous matrix is computed completely. The basic problem of a single fracture is investigated, and a semi‐analytical solution is presented. Using the solution obtained for a single fracture, Mori‐Tanaka and self‐consistent schemes are employed for upscaling the effective permeability of 3D fractured porous media. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.