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In this paper, we present a coupled fluid flow and geomechanics model for simulating coalbed methane recovery. In the model, the fluid flow process is simulated with a triple porosity/dual permeability representation, and the coupling effects of effective stress and matrix swelling/shrinkage approach are simulated with a coupled fluid flow, geomechanics and gas adsorption/desorption model. The mathematical model is implemented with a fully implicit finite volume method and simulation is conducted to evaluate the effect of coupled fluid flow, geomechanics, and gas adsorption/desorption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A parallel Navier-Stokes solver based on dynamic overset unstructured grids method is presented to simulate the unsteady turbulent flow field around helicopter in forward flight. The grid method has the advantages of unstructured grid and Chimera grid and is suitable to deal with multiple bodies in relatively moving. Unsteady Navier-Stokes equations are solved on overset unstructured grids by an explicit dual time-stepping, finite volume method. Preconditioning method applied to inner iteration of the dual-time stepping is used to speed up the convergence of numerical simulation. The Spalart-Allmaras one-equation turbulence model is used to evaluate the turbulent viscosity. Parallel computation is based on the dynamic domain decomposition method in overset unstructured grids system at each physical time step. A generic helicopter Robin with a four-blade rotor in forward flight is considered to validate the method presented in this paper. Numerical simulation results show that the parallel dynamic overset unstructured grids method is very efficient for the simulation of helicopter flow field and the results are reliable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we propose a second order hybrid reconstruction strategy for the fully adaptive multi-resolution scheme based on the second order finite volume method. The fully adaptive multi-resolution scheme is an adaptive grid method for solving the hyperbolic conservation laws. To improve its robustness, the third order central reconstruction is replaced by the second order hybrid reconstruction, i.e. the anti-ENO (essentially non-oscillatory) reconstruction and the ENO reconstruction have been adopted for the multi-resolution analysis and the inverse multi-resolution analysis, respectively. Several numerical examples indicate that this new hybrid reconstruction strategy is much less sensitive to the tolerance than the central reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]