Using Geochemical Method to Distinguish Lateral Migration and Vertical Migration in Rifted Basin:A Case Study from Eastern Lujiapu Depression in the Kailu Basin,NE China

Migration fractionation diagnosis is complicated in rifted basins where migration distance is generally short and lateral migration in sandy beds and vertical migration along faults are co-existed. Quantitative data from GC-MS analysis makes it possible to distinguish lateral and vertical migration effects. Oils discovered from the Jiaolige oilfield, eastern Lujiapu Depression are derived from single source rock with similar maturity, which is an ideal case to study the migration fractionation effects. Compositional differences among oils are largely caused by the migration fractionation either laterally in sand beds or vertically along the faults. Subtle maturity differences are assessed by the classic saturated hydrocarbon parameters which have certain influence on nitrogen compounds. In a certain maturity range, the ratios of shield and semi-shield isomers to the exposed isomers of alkylcarbazoles change with maturity in an opposite direction with migration fractionation, which may conceal the migration influence. However, migration and maturation have the same effects on absolute concentrations of alkylated carbazoles and benzocarbazole [a]/（[a]＋[c]） ratios, which provides an ideal tool for migration direction assessment. Continuous variations among different samples reflect increased migration distance in sandy beds, while abrupt changes may indicate the change of migration conduit systems. Integrated both geochemical interpretation and geological constrains, not only migration direction can be determined, but also the conduit systems through the sandy beds or the faults can be recognized.

Lateral migration of fault activity in Weihe basin

Lateral migration of fault activity in Weihe basin is a popular phenomenon and its characteristics are also typical. Taking the activity migrations of Wangshun Mountain piedmont fault toward Lishan piedmont fault and Weinan platform front fault, Dabaopi-Niujiaojian fault toward Shenyusi-Xiaojiazhai fault, among a serial of NE-trending faults from Baoji city to Jingyang County as examples, their migration time and process are analyzed and discussed in the present paper. It is useful for further understanding the structure development and physiognomy evolution history of Weihe basin.

A computational study of a capsule lateral migration in microchannel flow

A numerical method is used to model a capsule migration in a microchannel with small Reynolds number Re = 0.01. The capsule is modeled as a liquid drop sur- rounded by a neo-Hookean elastic membrane. The numer- ical model combines immersed boundary with lattice Boltz- mann method （IB-LBM）. The LBM is used to simulate fixed Cartesian grid while the IBM is utilized to implement the fluid-structure interaction by a set of Lagrangian moving grids for the membrane. The effect of shear elasticity and bending stiffness are both considered. The results show the significance of elastic modulus and initial lateral position on deformation and morphological properties of a circular cap- sule. The wall effect becomes stronger as the capsule ini- tial position gets closer to the channel wall. As the elastic modulus of membrane increases, the capsule undergoes less pronounced deformation and velocity in direction x is de- creased, thus, the capsule motion is slower than the back- ground flow. The best agreement between the present model and experiments for migration velocity takes place for the capsule with normal to moderate membrane elastic modulus. The results are in good agreement with experiment study of Coupier et al. and previous numerical studies. Therefore, the IB-LBM can be employed to make prediction in vitro and in vivo studies of capsule deformation.

Migration of a red blood cell in a permeable microvessel

One of the important features of the microvessels is with permeable vessels.The hyperpermeablility is especially prounounced due to the fast grow of the microvessel in the tumor tissues.Flow field induced by leakage often presents a different figure compared to that of the health vessel.Non-uniform velocity and pressure distribution are found in the simulation by using Lattice Boltzmann Method combined with Starling law.This non-uniform flow field has significant influence on the mass transport in permeable mocrovessel,such as the motion of red blood cell.Using 2D spring network model to express the red blood cell and immersed boundary method to implement the coupling of fluid and structure,numerical simulations were carried out to study the migration of a red blood cell in a straight permeable channel.The results show that the staying time of red blood cell in the leakage region increases with the intensity of leakage.We also found that the leakage can weaken the lateral migration of the red blood cell from the wall to the channel center,and even tune the migration towards the wall when the leakage is reasonably strong.

Deepwater Canyons Reworked by Bottom Currents:Sedimentary Evolution and Genetic Model

Based on multi-beam bathymetric data and 2D high-resolution, multi-channel seismic prof＇des, combing ODPl148 drilling data, the morphology, internal sedimentary architecture, and evo-lution pattern of 17 deepwater canyons from the Middle Miocene to present are documented in the northern Baiyun （白云） sag （BS）, Pearl River Mouth basin （PRMB）, and northern South China Sea （SCS）. There exist six seismic architectural elements in these canyons, including basal erosive surfaces （BES）, thalweg deposits （TD）, lateral migration packages （LMP）, mass transport deposits （MTD）, can- yon margin deposits （CMD）, and drape deposits （DD）. According to the stratigraphical ages and geo-metrical features of these canyons, their formation and evolution processes are divided into three stages： （1） Middle Miocene scouring-filling, （2） Late Miocene lateral migration, and （3） Pliocene-Quaternary vertical overlay. An auto-cyclic progressive process of eroding and filling by turbidity currents results in the scouring-filling and vertical overlay; bottom currents are responsible for the remarkable asym-metry between the two flanks of canyons; and faults are inherent dynamic forces triggering these can yons. It is inferred that these canyons are caused by the double effects of turbidity and bottom currents under the control of faults as inherent dynamic forces.

Impact of continuing scaling on the device performance of 3D cylindrical junction-less charge trapping memory

This work presents a comprehensive analysis of 3D cylindrical junction-less charge trapping memory device performance regarding continuous scaling of the structure dimensions. The key device performance, such as program/erase speed, vertical charge loss, and lateral charge migration under high temperature are intensively studied using the Sentaurus 3 D device simulator. Although scaling of channel radius is beneficial for operation speed improvement, it leads to a retention challenge due to vertical leakage, especially enhanced charge loss through TPO. Scaling of gate length not only decreases the program/erase speed but also leads to worse lateral charge migration. Scaling of spacer length is critical for the interference of adjacent cells and should be carefully optimized according to specific cell operation conditions. The gate stack shape is also found to be an important factor affecting the lateral charge migration. Our results provide guidance for high density and high reliability 3D CTM integration.