The permafrost region in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China is abundant in natural gas hydrate (NGH) resources. In this region, there is a great probability of meeting gas hydrate when conducing conventional oil and g...
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The permafrost region in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of China is abundant in natural gas hydrate (NGH) resources. In this region, there is a great probability of meeting gas hydrate when conducing conventional oil and gas well cementation operations. Because of the relatively developed fractures and not very high pore pressure (usually 3.5-3.6 MPa) in the gas hydrate reservoirs in this area, it is easy for the cementing slurry to penetrate into the gas hydrate reservoirs under the pressure difference during cementing process, undergo hydration and release heat, thus causing hydrate dissociation and cementing quality reduction or even failure. Therefore, it is necessary to first determine the penetration distance of the cementing slurry in the gas hydrate reservoirs to evaluate the effect of hydration of the cementing slurry on the hydrate stability in the reservoirs. In this paper, theoretical and experimental methods for determining the penetration distance value of cementing slurry were established for the first time. The permafrost layer in the Muli area of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was selected as the research object and the proposed computational model was verified by using low-density cementing slurry and common cementing process experiments. The results show that the penetration distance calculated by the established computational model is in good agreement with that measured in the experiment, and the computational model can provide technical support for the cementing process design in gas hydrate occurrence area.
A single uniform rectangular area, either homogeneous or heterogeneous, is considered in a soil medium (fundamental cell). Two governing ordinary differential equations in special form are developed for the fundamenta...
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A single uniform rectangular area, either homogeneous or heterogeneous, is considered in a soil medium (fundamental cell). Two governing ordinary differential equations in special form are developed for the fundamental cell. The ground supporting a partially embedded foundation is divided into a number of coarse rectangular areas (secondary cells). Each secondary cell is treated as either a single fundamental cell for homogeneous ground or a stack of fundamental cells for inhomogeneous ground. Differential equations for the assembly of secondary cells are formed with those for the fundamental cells. These equations lead to the soil responses in each cell expressed in simple closed form. They also lead to the convenient treatment of soil with appropriate Winkler-type models along the foundation faces and concentrated forces acting at the foundation corners. With them, the foundation responses are finally expressed in simple closed form. The approach is demonstrated for various cases and confirmed to produce the results reasonable enough for civil engineering use. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This paper presents the analysis of simply supported rectangular laminated composite plates loaded perpendicularly to the middle plane using a new computational method based on Reddy's layerwise theory. The stress...
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This paper presents the analysis of simply supported rectangular laminated composite plates loaded perpendicularly to the middle plane using a new computational method based on Reddy's layerwise theory. The stress-strain analysis was based on the analytical solution of equations of the layerwise theory, where the plates with an antisymmetric layer arrangement were analysed. Each of the layers contains continuous fibres oriented in one of two mutually orthogonal directions. The results obtained by applying above-mentioned computational procedure have been compared with the results obtained using three different models of finite elements of the ANSYS software package. The quantified limits of the computational method in terms of the impact of plate thickness, the number of layers and the aspect ratio of the plate on the accuracy, convergence and stability of primary variables-components of displacement, and secondary variables-components of stress, have been analysed in the paper.
The recent High Fidelity Generalized method of Cells (HFGMC) micromechnical modeling framework of multiphase composites is formulated in a new form which facilitates its computational efficiency that allows an effecti...
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The recent High Fidelity Generalized method of Cells (HFGMC) micromechnical modeling framework of multiphase composites is formulated in a new form which facilitates its computational efficiency that allows an effective multiscale material-structural analysis. Towards this goal, incremental and total formulations of the governing equations are derived. A new stress update computational method is established to solve for the nonlinear material constituents along with the micromechanical equations. The method is well-suited for multiaxial finite increments of applied average stress or strain fields. Explicit matrix form of the HFGMC model is presented which allows an immediate and convenient computer implementation of the offered method. In particular, the offered derivations provide for the residual field vector (error) in its incremental and total forms along with an explicit expression for the Jacobian matrix. This enables the efficient iterative computational implementation of the HFGMC as a stand alone. Furthermore, the new formulation of the HFGMC is used to generate a nested local-global nonlinear finite element analysis of composite materials and structures. Applications are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach. These include the behavior of multiphase composites with nonlinearly elastic, elastoplastic and viscoplastic constituents. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This article describes a strategy to explore monomer diversity while incorporating drug motif knowledge into the design and selection of monomers for combinatorial chemistry. The process involves collecting from avail...
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This article describes a strategy to explore monomer diversity while incorporating drug motif knowledge into the design and selection of monomers for combinatorial chemistry. The process involves collecting from available electronic databases all those molecules that potentially could be monomers. In this manner we have assembled five DAYLIGHT databases, each containing one of the common functional groups: carboxylic acids, aldehydes, nitriles, pri mary amines, and secondary amines. The molecules in the databases are then subjected to fingerprint and cluster analysis using the Jarvis-Patrick algorithm and profiles of the compounds are calculated relating to molecular weight, H-bond counts, and rotatable bond flexibility. The cluster information and profiles of the molecules are stored back into the databases for similarity and diversity searches, and for profile prescreening of monomers. To apply drug motif knowledge to a selection an application to an aldehyde set is discussed, in which representatives of each cluster in the aldehyde database are compared with drug molecules in the Standard Derwent File (SDF) in one of three ways to select drug motif-based monomers for purchase or synthesis. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc.
The paper presents an explicit formulation of the radiative problem in gray enclosures. The method is based on a series expansion that derives the mutual radiation factors by means of summation of the contributions to...
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The paper presents an explicit formulation of the radiative problem in gray enclosures. The method is based on a series expansion that derives the mutual radiation factors by means of summation of the contributions to the radiative thermal exchange given by the multi-reflection process. A mathematical proof that the infinite expansion converges to the well known solution, given by the implicit formulation and based on radiosities balance, is provided. Moreover a parametric analysis of the approximation induced by the explicit algorithm, as a result of the truncation order in the calculation of the series expansion, is carried out. The analysis shows how the precision of every approximation order is mainly related to the surface averaged infrared reflectance and is weakly dependent on the reflectance distribution. For high emissive and low reflecting surfaces, very few summations are required to meet high precision;the same level of precision is achievable also with medium and high reflecting surfaces, by increasing the truncation order of the series. More generally, the explicit formulation provides an alternative approach to problems involving multi-reflecting cavities in different engineering applications, from heat transfer to optics. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
We have developed a new type of simple lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for the compressible Euler equations based on the collisionless kinetic-equation approach proposed by Sone. The model uses the collisionless kinetic ...
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We have developed a new type of simple lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for the compressible Euler equations based on the collisionless kinetic-equation approach proposed by Sone. The model uses the collisionless kinetic equation in the streaming process, and modifies the distribution function to its Chapman-Enskog type at each time step. Compared with the current LB models which solve the kinetic equation of the BGK type, the proposed model is superior in the following two points: (i) Inviscid flows can be computed stably while there is no such model in the current LBM;(ii) The velocity distribution function does not need to be memorized in computation. We calculate various inviscid compressible flows described by the compressible Euler equations using our new one-, two-, and three-dimensional models. Numerical results show the capability of our scheme to simulate high-speed supersonic flows with shock waves.
We show how the spectrum of a radially symmetric Dirac Hamiltonian can be computed rather accurately on a spatial grid using a split-shift potential method. This method is sufficiently accurate such that the fine stru...
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We show how the spectrum of a radially symmetric Dirac Hamiltonian can be computed rather accurately on a spatial grid using a split-shift potential method. This method is sufficiently accurate such that the fine structure splittings of hydrogen-like relativistic ions with nuclear charge Z can be reproduced for a relatively small number of spatial radial grid points. We use this analytically known spectrum to examine the error scaling of this method. The method is then applied to examine the impact of a spatial confinement on the fine structure splittings and the bound states for hydrogen.
A new Controllable Structure Generation Scheme (CSGS) based on discrete Gaussian quadrature space and velocity is presented and used to generate multiple-phase random isotropic homogenous and shape-constrained anisotr...
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A new Controllable Structure Generation Scheme (CSGS) based on discrete Gaussian quadrature space and velocity is presented and used to generate multiple-phase random isotropic homogenous and shape-constrained anisotropic heterogeneous structures. The primary advantage of the new CSGS over the existing random structure generation growth method is the ability to model a wide variety of structures by controlling the shape through relatively simple constraint indexes. The growth speed probability function is introduced to control the mesoscopic porosities and mixture/separation of material phases. The model is applied to generate four packed structure types (shapeless random, separated solid shapes, separated random-filled shapes, and random-mixture-filled shapes). Three-dimensional steady and transient thermal diffusion are simulated by Non-Dimensional Lattice Boltzmann method (NDLBM). The steady state results are compared to measured data available in the published literature. The transient results reveal how the mesoscopic shape of a structure impacts thermal diffusion. With equivalent macroscopic volume fractions, structures with higher mesoscopic volume fractions of high conductivity phases possess higher effective thermal conductivity/diffusivity because there is greater connectivity of the higher conductive material at mesoscopic scale. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
This is a discussion of the theoretical basis for the optimum number and values of electro-optical parameters for inclusion in databases for calculating the spectral properties of nano-objects with specified microstru...
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This is a discussion of the theoretical basis for the optimum number and values of electro-optical parameters for inclusion in databases for calculating the spectral properties of nano-objects with specified microstructures and for analytical applications.
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