Underhand cut-and-fill mining has been widely used in underground mining operations,especially when the rock mass or orebody is of poor quality or prone to rockburst due to high stress.In such cases,mining workers sho...Underhand cut-and-fill mining has been widely used in underground mining operations,especially when the rock mass or orebody is of poor quality or prone to rockburst due to high stress.In such cases,mining workers should carry out all production activities under the cemented backfill roof or sill mat instead of a highly fractured and unstable rock roof or a strong rock roof with a high potential of rockburst.Therefore,the stability and required strength of the sill mat are critical issues for mining engineers.In 1991,Mitchell considered that sill mat could fail by caving,sliding,rotation,and flexure.Mitchell also proposed an analytical solution to determine the minimum required strength of the sill mat for each type of failure based on two stiff or immobile rock walls.However,recent publications using numerical modeling and field measurements indicate that the compressive stresses in the sill mat induced by rock wall closure due to a stope excavation beneath the sill mat can be significant.It is thus highly necessary to investigate the required strength of the sill mat by considering rock wall closure.In this study,the crushing failure of sill mat due to rock wall closure generated by underground excavation and a new failure mode called"crushing and caving”is revealed by numerical modeling.An analytical solution corresponding to each failure mode is then developed to estimate the minimum required cohesion(cmin)of the sill mat.A criterion is also proposed to determine if the sill mat fails by crushing or crushing-and-caving failure.The proposed analytical solution does not involve any correction coefficients.The validity of the proposed analytical solution is demonstrated by numerical modeling.The proposed analytical solution can thus be employed to predict the cmin of sill mat subjected to wall closure generated by underlying stope excavation.展开更多
A novel method is proposed to combine the wall-modeled large-eddy simulation(LES) with the diffuse-interface direct-forcing immersed boundary(IB) method.The new developments in this method include:(i) the momentum equ...A novel method is proposed to combine the wall-modeled large-eddy simulation(LES) with the diffuse-interface direct-forcing immersed boundary(IB) method.The new developments in this method include:(i) the momentum equation is integrated along the wall-normal direction to link the tangential component of the effective body force for the IB method to the wall shear stress predicted by the wall model;(ii) a set of Lagrangian points near the wall are introduced to compute the normal component of the effective body force for the IB method by reconstructing the normal component of the velocity. This novel method will be a classical direct-forcing IB method if the grid is fine enough to resolve the flow near the wall. The method is used to simulate the flows around the DARPA SUBOFF model. The results obtained are well comparable to the measured experimental data and wall-resolved LES results.展开更多
In the underhand cut-and-fill mining method,a sill mat(i.e.an artificial horizontal pillar)constructed by cemented backfill is essential to prevent mine workers from being directly exposed under problematic rock roofs...In the underhand cut-and-fill mining method,a sill mat(i.e.an artificial horizontal pillar)constructed by cemented backfill is essential to prevent mine workers from being directly exposed under problematic rock roofs.A critical issue is to determine the minimum required strength of the sill mat to ensure a safe and cost-effective design.Until now,Mitchell’s analytical solution is the only available option,considering two stiff and immobile rock walls.Unavoidable rock wall closure associated with stope excavation below the sill mat was neglected.This,along with other undefined parameters,explains why Mitchell’s solution is rarely used in sill mat design.A new analytical solution for determining the minimum required strength of the sill mat accounting for wall closure is necessary.In this study,a closed-form analytical solution for estimating rock wall closure generated by stope excavation below a sill mat is developed by using Salamon’s and Flamant’s models.The proposed analytical solution does not contain any coefficients of correction or calibration.Despite several assumptions(or somewhat of oversimplifications)necessary to render a simple analytical solution possible,good agreements are obtained between the rock wall closures predicted by applying the proposed analytical solution and those obtained numerically with FLAC3D for many cases with arbitrarily chosen geometrical and material parameters.The proposed analytical solution is therefore validated and can be used to evaluate the rock wall closure generated by stope excavation below a sill mat.展开更多
Flapping-powered propulsion is used by many animals to locomote through air or water. Here we review recent experimental and numerical studies on self-propelled mechanical systems powered by a flapping motion. These s...Flapping-powered propulsion is used by many animals to locomote through air or water. Here we review recent experimental and numerical studies on self-propelled mechanical systems powered by a flapping motion. These studies improve our understanding of the mutual interaction between actively flapping bodies and surrounding fluids. The results obtained in these works provide not only new insights into biolocomotion but also useful information for the biomimetic design of artificial flyers and swimmers.展开更多
A second-order optimized monotonicity-preserving MUSCL scheme(OMUSCL2) is developed based on the dispersion and dissipation optimization and monotonicity-preserving technique.The new scheme(OMUSCL2) is simple in expre...A second-order optimized monotonicity-preserving MUSCL scheme(OMUSCL2) is developed based on the dispersion and dissipation optimization and monotonicity-preserving technique.The new scheme(OMUSCL2) is simple in expression and is easy for use in CFD codes.Compared with the original second-order or third-order MUSCL scheme,the new scheme shows nearly the same CPU cost and higher resolution to shockwaves and small-scale waves.This new scheme has been tested through a set of one-dimensional and two-dimensional tests,including the Shu-Osher problem,the Sod problem,the Lax problem,the two-dimensional double Mach reflection and the RAE2822 transonic airfoil test.All numerical tests show that,compared with the original MUSCL schemes,the new scheme causes fewer dispersion and dissipation errors and produces higher resolution.展开更多
基金financial support from the Young Scientist Project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2021YFC2900600)Beijing Nova Program(Grant No.20220484057)+1 种基金The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(Grant No.RGPIN-2018-06902)industrial partners of the Research Institute on Mines and the Environment(RIME UQAT-Polytechnique:https://irme.ca/en/).
文摘Underhand cut-and-fill mining has been widely used in underground mining operations,especially when the rock mass or orebody is of poor quality or prone to rockburst due to high stress.In such cases,mining workers should carry out all production activities under the cemented backfill roof or sill mat instead of a highly fractured and unstable rock roof or a strong rock roof with a high potential of rockburst.Therefore,the stability and required strength of the sill mat are critical issues for mining engineers.In 1991,Mitchell considered that sill mat could fail by caving,sliding,rotation,and flexure.Mitchell also proposed an analytical solution to determine the minimum required strength of the sill mat for each type of failure based on two stiff or immobile rock walls.However,recent publications using numerical modeling and field measurements indicate that the compressive stresses in the sill mat induced by rock wall closure due to a stope excavation beneath the sill mat can be significant.It is thus highly necessary to investigate the required strength of the sill mat by considering rock wall closure.In this study,the crushing failure of sill mat due to rock wall closure generated by underground excavation and a new failure mode called"crushing and caving”is revealed by numerical modeling.An analytical solution corresponding to each failure mode is then developed to estimate the minimum required cohesion(cmin)of the sill mat.A criterion is also proposed to determine if the sill mat fails by crushing or crushing-and-caving failure.The proposed analytical solution does not involve any correction coefficients.The validity of the proposed analytical solution is demonstrated by numerical modeling.The proposed analytical solution can thus be employed to predict the cmin of sill mat subjected to wall closure generated by underlying stope excavation.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91752118,11672305,11232011,and 11572331)the Strategic Priority Research Program(No.XDB22040104)the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.QYZDJ-SSWSYS002)
文摘A novel method is proposed to combine the wall-modeled large-eddy simulation(LES) with the diffuse-interface direct-forcing immersed boundary(IB) method.The new developments in this method include:(i) the momentum equation is integrated along the wall-normal direction to link the tangential component of the effective body force for the IB method to the wall shear stress predicted by the wall model;(ii) a set of Lagrangian points near the wall are introduced to compute the normal component of the effective body force for the IB method by reconstructing the normal component of the velocity. This novel method will be a classical direct-forcing IB method if the grid is fine enough to resolve the flow near the wall. The method is used to simulate the flows around the DARPA SUBOFF model. The results obtained are well comparable to the measured experimental data and wall-resolved LES results.
基金financial support from the Young Scientist Project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2021YFC2900600)the Beijing Nova Program(Grant No.20220484057)+1 种基金The authors acknowledge the financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(Grant No.RGPIN-2018-06902)industrial partners of the Research Institute on Mines and the Environment(RIME UQAT-Polytechnique:https://irme.ca/en/).
文摘In the underhand cut-and-fill mining method,a sill mat(i.e.an artificial horizontal pillar)constructed by cemented backfill is essential to prevent mine workers from being directly exposed under problematic rock roofs.A critical issue is to determine the minimum required strength of the sill mat to ensure a safe and cost-effective design.Until now,Mitchell’s analytical solution is the only available option,considering two stiff and immobile rock walls.Unavoidable rock wall closure associated with stope excavation below the sill mat was neglected.This,along with other undefined parameters,explains why Mitchell’s solution is rarely used in sill mat design.A new analytical solution for determining the minimum required strength of the sill mat accounting for wall closure is necessary.In this study,a closed-form analytical solution for estimating rock wall closure generated by stope excavation below a sill mat is developed by using Salamon’s and Flamant’s models.The proposed analytical solution does not contain any coefficients of correction or calibration.Despite several assumptions(or somewhat of oversimplifications)necessary to render a simple analytical solution possible,good agreements are obtained between the rock wall closures predicted by applying the proposed analytical solution and those obtained numerically with FLAC3D for many cases with arbitrarily chosen geometrical and material parameters.The proposed analytical solution is therefore validated and can be used to evaluate the rock wall closure generated by stope excavation below a sill mat.
基金supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grants KJCX-SW-L08, KJCX3-SYW-S01)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 11021262, 11023001, 11232011, 11372331)
文摘Flapping-powered propulsion is used by many animals to locomote through air or water. Here we review recent experimental and numerical studies on self-propelled mechanical systems powered by a flapping motion. These studies improve our understanding of the mutual interaction between actively flapping bodies and surrounding fluids. The results obtained in these works provide not only new insights into biolocomotion but also useful information for the biomimetic design of artificial flyers and swimmers.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10632050,10872205,11072248)the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2009CB724100)+1 种基金the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2009AA010A139)the Chinese Academy Sciences Program (Grant No.KJCX 2-EW-J01)
文摘A second-order optimized monotonicity-preserving MUSCL scheme(OMUSCL2) is developed based on the dispersion and dissipation optimization and monotonicity-preserving technique.The new scheme(OMUSCL2) is simple in expression and is easy for use in CFD codes.Compared with the original second-order or third-order MUSCL scheme,the new scheme shows nearly the same CPU cost and higher resolution to shockwaves and small-scale waves.This new scheme has been tested through a set of one-dimensional and two-dimensional tests,including the Shu-Osher problem,the Sod problem,the Lax problem,the two-dimensional double Mach reflection and the RAE2822 transonic airfoil test.All numerical tests show that,compared with the original MUSCL schemes,the new scheme causes fewer dispersion and dissipation errors and produces higher resolution.
