One-dimensional analytical model for thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling behaviour of hydrates overlying layer during gas production

Abstract

The production of natural gas from hydrates involves notable phase change within the hydrate-bearing sediments as well as induces strong thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupling response within the overlying layer, which potentially leads to well instability and hazardous deformation. This study aims to shed some light on this issue by developing a one-dimensional analytical model. Parametric study was conducted with typical values being determined in accordance with those in the South China Sea (SCS). During the production process, simulations with different permeability all exhibit a continuous accumulating response of excess pore pressure (EPP) with strong oscillation. Thermally induced EPP accumulates near the bottom of the overlying layer, resulting in greater peak values of EPP in the lower part of the layer, which has significant impact on the stability of the mining wells. The temperature load is the dominant factor to determine the expansion of overlying layer. With greater permeability, the accumulation rate of thermal-induced pore pressure is close to the dissipation rate, which to some extent alleviates the expansion. The proposed model is expected to form the basis for studies regarding this issue, and the presented results provide useful implications for the development of improved gas production techniques for deep sea hydrates.     

灰土换填与CFG桩在高层住宅地基处理中的应用

通过对灰土换填与CFG桩应用于高层住宅地基处理的分析,结合设计、施工、变形计算、复合地基检测及沉降观测等各方面资料、数据,验证了设计方案的可行性。为同类工程提供参考。     

四川汶川和青海玉树地震前鲜水河断裂带地下流体异常现象分析

龙门山断裂带上2008年四川汶川8.0级地震和玉树-甘孜断裂带上2010年青海玉树7.1级地震前,地处鲜水河断裂带的四川甘孜地震台的温泉、姑咱地震台的海子泉、道孚甲宗乡53温泉、康定二道桥温泉地下流体测项有明显的前兆异常.其异常特征表现为破年变规律,存在短临异常,也有1-2年的中期异常.     

Deformation caused by the 2011 eastern Japan great earthquake monitored using the GPS single-epoch precise point positioning technique

Crustal deformation can provide constraints for studying earthquake rupture and shock wave transmission for the Mw9.0 eastern Japan great earthquake. Using the single-epoch precise point positioning (PPP) method and the appropriate positioning flow, we process GPS data from six IGS (International GNSS Service) sites (e.g., MIZU, TSK2, USUD, MTKA, AIRA and KSMV) located in Japan and obtain the positioning results with centimeter scale precision. The displacement time series of the six sites are analyzed using the least squares spectral analysis method to estimate deformations caused by the Mw9.0 mainshock and the Mw7.9 aftershock, and the cumulative displacements after 1 day. Mainshock displacements at station MIZU, the nearest site to the mainshock in the North (N), East (E), and Up (U) directions, are ?1.202 m, 2.180 m and ?0.104 m, respectively, and the cumulative deformations after 1 day are ?1.117 m, 2.071 m and ?0.072 m, respectively. The displacements at station KSMV, the nearest site to the Mw7.9 aftershock in the N, E and U directions, are ?0.032 m, 0.742 m and ?0.345 m, respectively. The other sites obviously experienced eastern movements and subsidence. The deformation vectors indicate that the horizontal displacements caused by the earthquake point to the epicenter and rupture. Elastic bounds evidently took place at all sites. The results indicate that the crustal movements and earthquake were part of a megathrust caused by the Pacific Plate sinking under the North American Plate to the northeast of Japan island arc.     

实现复频移完全匹配层吸收边界条件的递推卷积方法

完全匹配层吸收边界（PML）已经被证明是非常有效的边界吸收技术,对体波和面波的吸收都具有非常好的效果,已经被广泛应用于弹性波的数值模拟中。但是在某些情况下传统的PML技术还是存在一定的问题,比如对掠射情况下的体波和窄区域自由表面条件下的面波的吸收等等。在坐标变换中采用复频移拉伸函数的复频移PML可以有效地改善PML边界条件的吸收性能。基于弹性波一阶速度-应力方程,推导了复频移PML的递推卷积实现方法,并采用交错网格高阶有限差分法对其进行了数值模拟,与传统的PML进行了对比。结果表明：传统的PML对掠射情况下的体波和窄区域自由表面条件下的面波吸收不足,会产生虚假反射,影响真实波场;而基于递推卷积的复频移PML算法能够有效地改善困难情况下的吸收效果,并且在实现过程中不用分裂变量,应用更加方便简单。计算卷积时采用递推的形式,推导过程直观易懂,易于编程,而且不会增加计算量,存储量也没有太大的变化。     

香港巨牡蛎♀×太平洋牡蛎♂异源三倍体的初步研究

本文以香港巨牡蛎(Crassostrea hongkongensis)和太平洋牡蛎(C.gigas)为研究对象,进行牡蛎异源三倍体研究试验。在水温25℃条件下,香港巨牡蛎剥离卵子于海水中浸泡促熟1.5h后,与太平洋牡蛎精子受精,获得最高卵裂率为(24.40±3.79)%。受精后20min,采用盐度为10的低渗海水处理杂交受精卵25min,可获得68.65%的异源三倍体幼虫,孵化率为12.71%。异源三倍体幼虫的存活率和生长率均未表现出优势。受精后第9天,异源三倍体幼虫的存活率仅为(0.116±0.023)%,平均壳长为(103.50±0.85)(m;对照组的存活率和壳长分别为(42.17±2.74)%和(123.25±8.60)μm。幼虫在附着变态前死亡。     

钻孔应变仪探头与井孔不同耦合材料的试验

对应变仪的探头进行不同耦合材料的试验.实验结果说明探头在不同耦合材料情况下取得的观测结果是不同的,金属棒作为耦合材料效果最好,它具有减小仪器零漂的优点.     

陆地沉积物对大洋缺氧事件的响应：六盘山群黑色页岩地球化学特征及其意义

通过对六盘山群中上部湖相沉积中一层黑色页岩年代（113.45~112.98 Ma）及其下部泥灰岩的元素地球化学特征研究发现,黑色页岩形成于干热而相对湿润气候背景下的缺氧还原环境中,与典型缺氧事件黑色页岩的地球化学特征基本一致,说明该黑色页岩记录了六盘山地区对全球白垩纪大洋缺氧事件OAE1b (约113～111 Ma)的响应,可能指示该期大洋缺氧事件是一次全球性的气候变化事件。     

Revisiting the Local Kinematics of the Milky Way using the New Hipparcos Data

With the new Hipparcos data recently released, we reexamine the kinematics in the solar neighborhood. Two different populations of objects, namely the thin-disk O-B5 stars and the thick-disk K-M giants, are selected for tracing the kinematical parameters of the Galaxy. Using a 3-D kinematical model, the components of the solar motion and the Oort constants are derived. The solutions and the kinematics inferred from both types of stars are analyzed. The results obtained with the new data are compared with those from the old Hipparcos data. We conclude that the present solution provides a more reliable estimation of the Oort constants, thanks to the new reduction of the Hipparcos data that provides even more accurate astrometric measurements of stars.     

Clustering Property of Wolf-Rayet Galaxies in the SDSS

We have analysed, for the first time, the clustering properties of Wolf-Rayet (W-R) galaxies, using a large sample of 846 W-R galaxies selected from the Data Release 4 (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We compute the cross-correlation function between W- R galaxies and a reference sample of galaxies drawn from the DR4. We compare the function to the results for control samples of non-W-R star-forming galaxies that are matched closely in redshift, luminosity, concentration, 4000-A break strength and specific star formation rate (SSFR). On scales larger than a few Mpc, W-R galaxies have almost the same clustering amplitude as the control samples, indicating that W-R galaxies and non-W-R control galax- ies populate dark matter haloes of similar masses. On scales between 0.1-1 h-1 Mpc, W-R galaxies are less clustered than the control samples, and the size of the difference depends on the SSFR. Based on both observational and theoretical considerations, we speculate that this negative bias can be interpreted by W-R galaxies residing preferentially at the centers of their dark matter haloes. We examine the distribution of W-R galaxies more closely using the SDSS galaxy group catalogue of Yang et al., and find that ～82% of our W-R galaxies are the central galaxies of groups, compared to ～74% for the corresponding control galaxies. We find that W-R galaxies are hosted, on average, by dark matter haloes of masses of 1012,3 M☉, compared to 1012,1 M? For centrally-located W-R galaxies and 1012,7 M☉ For satellite ones. We would like to point out that this finding, which provides a direct observational support to our conjecture, is really very crude due to the small number of W-R galaxies and the incom- pleteness of the group catalogue, and needs more work in future with larger samples.