Miscible displacement of non-Newtonian fluids in a vertical tube

C Gabard, JP Hulin - The European Physical Journal E, 2003 - Springer
The influence of rheology on the miscible displacement of a viscous fluid by a less viscous,
Newtonian one in a vertical tube is studied experimentally as a function of the flow velocity …

Saffman-Taylor instability in a radial Hele-Shaw cell for a shear-dependent rheological fluid

P Singh, R Lalitha, S Mondal - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - Elsevier
We present the study of viscous fingering in the radial hele shaw cell, using the shear-
dependent rheological fluid which transitions from the Newtonian to shear thinning …

Multiphase viscoplastic flows in a nonuniform Hele-Shaw cell: a fluidic device to control interfacial patterns

A Eslami, R Basak, SM Taghavi - Industrial & Engineering …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Inspired by the problem of the removal of in situ gel-like materials via a displacement flow
process, we use a fluidic device known as Hele-Shaw cell to study the flow parameters …

Saffman–Taylor instability in yield stress fluids

N Maleki-Jirsaraei, A Lindner… - Journal of Physics …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Pushing a fluid with a less viscous one gives rise to the well known Saffman–Taylor
instability. This instability is important in a wide variety of applications involving strongly non …

Localized lattice Boltzmann equation model for simulating miscible viscous displacement in porous media

X Meng, Z Guo - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016 - Elsevier
A localized lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) model for simulating the miscible viscous
displacement in porous media is proposed. The Darcy's law for flow and the convection …

Impact of fluid elasticity on miscible viscous fingering

S Malhotra, MM Sharma - Chemical Engineering Science, 2014 - Elsevier
An experimental study is performed to investigate the impact of fluid elasticity on miscible
viscous fingering. Rectilinear flow experiments are performed by displacing aqueous Boger …

Dispersion of solids in fracturing flows of yield stress fluids

S Hormozi, IA Frigaard - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017 - cambridge.org
Solids dispersion is an important part of hydraulic fracturing, both in helping to understand
phenomena such as tip screen-out and spreading of the pad, and in new process variations …

Spatiotemporal linear stability of viscoelastic Saffman–Taylor flows

D Bansal, T Chauhan, S Sircar - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The temporal and spatiotemporal linear stability analyses of a displaced Oldroyd-B fluid with
the mean flow in a horizontally aligned, square, Hele–Shaw cell are reported to identify the …

Wettability effect on oil recovery using rock-structured microfluidics

J Yang, M Saadat, I Azizov, M Dudek, G Øye, PA Tsai - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Surface wettability has a crucial impact on drop splashing, emulsion dynamics, slip flow for
drag reduction, fluid–fluid displacement, and various microfluidic applications. Targeting …

Displacement of yield-stress fluids in a fracture

SA Boronin, AA Osiptsov, J Desroches - International Journal of Multiphase …, 2015 - Elsevier
We consider a displacement of several yield-stress fluids in a Hele-Shaw cell. The topic is
relevant to the development of a model for the flow of multiple phases inside a narrow …