• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제66권4호
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• pp.505-513
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• 2018

Steam flooding is widely used in heavy oil reservoir with coupling effects among the formation temperature change, fluid flow and solid deformation. The effective stress, porosity and permeability in this process can be affected by the multi-physical coupling of thermal, hydraulic and mechanical processes (THM), resulting in a complex interaction of geomechanical effects and multiphase flow in the porous media. Quantification of the state of deformation and stress in the reservoir is therefore essential for the correct prediction of reservoir efficiency and productivity. This paper presents a coupled fluid flow, thermal and geomechanical model employing a program (MATLAB interface code), which was developed to couple conventional reservoir (ECLIPSE) and geomechanical (ABAQUS) simulators for coupled THM processes in multiphase reservoir modeling. In each simulation cycle, time dependent reservoir pressure and temperature fields obtained from three dimensional compositional reservoir models were transferred into finite element reservoir geomechanical models in ABAQUS as multi-phase flow in deforming reservoirs cannot be performed within ABAQUS and new porosity and permeability are obtained using volumetric strains for the next analysis step. Finally, the proposed approach is illustrated on a complex coupled problem related to steam flooding in an oil reservoir. The reservoir coupled study showed that permeability and porosity increase during the injection scenario and increasing rate around injection wells exceed those of other similar comparable cases. Also, during injection, the uplift occurred very fast just above the injection wells resulting in plastic deformation.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2007

마찰용접은 소재를 서로 마찰시켜 마찰열에 의해 용접하는 방법이다. 본 연구는 내부에 유동부를 갖는 부분을 마찰용접을 이용하여 용접했을 때 유체의 유동에 영향이 없는 유동부를 설계하는데 목적을 두고 있다. 용접부의 설계 변수를 결정하고 이에 대하여 마찰용접 해석을 DEFORM-2D를 이용하여 해석을 수행하였다. 마찰용접 해석을 수행하기 위해 온도변화에 따른 마찰계수와 업셋 압력, 소재의 분당회전수, 그리고 유동응력을 입력해 주었다. 해석결과에 따라서 유동에 영향이 없는 용접부의 최적형상을 결정하였다.