Coal seam gas pressure is a key parameter of gas accident
control
and gas drainage. At present, there are some problems in field pressure
measurement, such as long period, and there is often a need to drill
more holes to ensure the reliability of pressure measurement. In this
research, a physical gas pressure measurement experiment in a coal
sample borehole was carried out, and a mathematical model of gas pressure
evolution with time was constructed. Based on the OpenFOAM platform
and C++ language, a numerical solver was developed, and the mathematical
model was verified by the data of gas pressure in coal seam boreholes.
The results show that the evolution process of gas pressure in coal
seam boreholes can be divided into two stages. In the first stage,
the gas pressure increases rapidly, and the pressure change rate decreases
continuously. In the second stage, the gas pressure is slow and stable,
and the pressure change rate tends to 0. The correlation coefficients
between the mathematical model and the field-measured data are more
than 0.94, and the calculation and prediction accuracy are high. Therefore,
the model can be used to verify the field data during pressure measurement,
which has better field significance and application value.