Roles of drag reducing polymers in single-and multi-phase flows

A Abubakar, T Al-Wahaibi, Y Al-Wahaibi… - … research and design, 2014 - Elsevier
It has become a well-known fact that finding sustainable solutions to the unavoidable high
pressure losses accompanying pipeline flows to increase the pum** capacity without …

Critical review of mechanistic and empirical (semimechanistic) models for particle removal from sandbed deposits in horizontal annuli with water

M Bizhani, E Kuru - SPE Journal, 2018 - onepetro.org
An experimental study was conducted to investigate turbulent flow of water over a cuttings
bed by use of a large-scale horizontal-flow loop. A nonintrusive laser-based-imaging …

Influence of silica nanoparticles on the functionality of water-based drilling fluids

M Al-Yasiri, A Awad, S Pervaiz, D Wen - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Using nanoparticles into a drilling fluid (mud) is a promising technique that could solve a
range of problems presently encountered during drilling operations. This paper reports the …

Buoyant fluid injections at high viscosity contrasts in an inclined closed-end pipe

S Akbari, SM Taghavi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper studies the buoyant miscible injection of a high-viscosity fluid in a pipe filled with
a low-viscosity fluid. The injection is carried out via an eccentric inner pipe inside an inclined …

The effects of drillstring-eccentricity,-rotation, and-buckling configurations on annular frictional pressure losses while circulating yield-power-law fluids

O Erge, EM Ozbayoglu, SZ Miska, M Yu… - SPE Drilling & …, 2015 - onepetro.org
An experimental study followed by comprehensive flow modeling is presented. The
experiments were conducted on a horizontal annulus with drillstring under compression …

Polymer-doped two-dimensional turbulent flow to study the transition from Newtonian turbulence to elastic instability

K Fukushima, H Kishi, R Sago, H Suzuki, RJ Poole… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Detecting the flow regimes of Newtonian turbulence (NT), elasto-inertial filament (EIF),
elasto-inertial turbulence (EIT), and maximum drag reduction (MDR) of polymer solution and …

Electroosmotic flow of non‐Newtonian fluids in a constriction microchannel

CH Ko, D Li, A Malekanfard, YN Wang, LM Fu… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Insulator‐based dielectrophoresis has to date been almost entirely restricted to Newtonian
fluids despite the fact that many of the chemical and biological fluids exhibit non‐Newtonian …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid rheological effects on the flow of polymer solutions in a contraction–expansion microchannel

PP Jagdale, D Li, X Shao, JB Bostwick, X Xuan - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
A fundamental understanding of the flow of polymer solutions through the pore spaces of
porous media is relevant and significant to enhanced oil recovery and groundwater …

Fully turbulent flows of viscoplastic fluids in a rectangular duct

RS Mitishita, JA MacKenzie, GJ Elfring… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Turbulent flows of viscoplastic fluids at high Reynolds numbers have been investigated
recently with direct numerical simulations (DNS) but experimental results have been limited …

Multiplex vortex instability in the flow of non-Newtonian fluids through microcavity arrays

XY Xu, ZY Zheng, K Tian, D Wang, KR Qin, CD Xue - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Complex fluids always possess obvious non-Newtonian properties that facilitate the
occurrence and development of vortex instability in porous media, which is of critical …