《2D FEM analysis for coupled thermohydromechanicalmigratory processes in near field of hypothetical nuclear waste repository》.pdfVIP

J. Cent. South Univ. Technol. (2010) 17: 612−620 DOI: 10.1007/s11771−010−0530−4 2D FEM analysis for coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-migratory processes in near field of hypothetical nuclear waste repository ZHANG Yu-jun(张玉军)1, ZHANG Wei-qing(张维庆)2 1. Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China; 2. School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China © Central South University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Abstract: In order to consider the influence of temperature and stress fields on the migration of radioactive nuclide with underground water movement, an elastoplastic model and a 2D FEM code for analysis of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) processes in saturated and unsaturated porous media were extended and improved through introducing the percolation and migration equation, so that the code can be used for solving the temperature field, flow field, stress field and nuclide concentration field simultaneously. The states of temperatures, pore pressures and nuclide concentrations in the near field of a hypothetical nuclear waste repository were investigated. The influence of the half life of the radioactive nuclide on the temporal change of nuclide concentration was analyzed considering the thermo-hydro-mechanical-migratory coupling. The results show that, at the boundary of the vitrified waste, the concentration of radioactive nuclide with a half life of 10 a falls after a period of rising, with the maximum value of 0.182 mol/m3 and the minimum value of 0.181 mol/m3 at the end of computation. For a half life of 1 000 a, the concentration of radioactive nuclide always increases with the increase of the