CFD analysis of viscous fingering in Hele-Shaw cell for air-glycerin system

A Singh, KM Pandey, Y Singh - Materials Today: Proceedings, 2021 - Elsevier
In this research paper, a numerical study has been done on the viscous fingering instability
for the air-glycerin system in the 2D horizontal Hele-Shaw cell. The air and glycerin are …

Momentum transport of morphological instability in fluid displacement with changes in viscosity

T Ban, H Ishii, A Onizuka, A Chatterjee… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Saffman–Taylor instability exhibits a stepwise unstable morphology from a stable interface to
viscous fingering, eventually leading to tip splitting. The nonlinear dynamics of the …

Viscous banding instabilities: non-porous viscous fingering

KN Kowal - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We demonstrate a novel instability found within unconfined viscous bands/rims, or free-
surface flows involving a longitudinal viscosity contrast. Such instabilities may be described …

Miscible viscous fingering involving viscosity changes of the displacing fluid by chemical reactions

Y Nagatsu, C Iguchi, K Matsuda, Y Kato, Y Tada - Physics of Fluids, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
In our previous study, we experimentally studied the effects of changes in the viscosity of the
displaced more-viscous liquid by instantaneous reactions on miscible viscous fingering …

Reynolds number dependence of drag reduction by rodlike polymers

Y Amarouchene, D Bonn, H Kellay, TS Lo, VS L'vov… - Physics of …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
We present experimental and theoretical results addressing the Reynolds number (Re)
dependence of drag reduction by sufficiently large concentrations of rodlike polymers in …

Improving polymer flooding by addition of surface modified nanoparticles

L Corredor, B Maini, M Husein - SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas …, 2018 - onepetro.org
The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility of improving the performance of
EOR polymers by adding surface modified silica nanoparticles (NP). The nano-polymer sols …

Meniscus instabilities in thin elastic layers

JS Biggins, L Mahadevan - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We consider meniscus instabilities in thin elastic layers perfectly adhered to, and confined
between, much stiffer bodies. When the free boundary associated with the meniscus of the …

On the gas-penetration in straight tubes completely filled with a viscoelastic fluid

Y Dimakopoulos, J Tsamopoulos - Journal of non-newtonian fluid …, 2004 - Elsevier
We examine the transient displacement of viscoelastic fluids by a gas in straight cylindrical
tubes of finite length. For the simulation of the processes, the mixed finite element method is …

Rheological Behavior and Roll Coating Properties of PDMS Enhanced with Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Fumed Silica

H Perera, B Black, MD Islam, JE Ryu… - ACS Applied …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Scalable manufacturing of micro-and nanoscale textured surfaces from polymer composites
is desirable in many applications from drag reduction in ship applications to energy-efficient …

Deviation from capillary number scaling of nonlinear viscous fingering formed by the injection of Newtonian surfactant solution

R Tsuzuki, R Tanaka, T Ban, Y Nagatsu - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
An experimental study of immiscible viscous fingering (VF), formed during the injection of
surfactant solutions into viscous oil in a radial Hele-Shaw cell, in which both fluids are …