A review of crude oil emulsification and multiphase flows in chemical flooding

Y Zhou, D Yin, Y Li, J He… - Energy Science & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical flooding has become an important method to enhance oil recovery in high‐water
cut reservoirs. Crude oil emulsification often occurs during chemical flooding, and it plays a …

Stability and tip streaming of a surfactant-loaded drop in an extensional flow. Influence of surface viscosity

MA Herrada, A Ponce-Torres, M Rubio… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the nonlinear stationary states of a droplet covered with an insoluble
surfactant in a uniaxial extensional flow. We calculate both the eigenfunctions to reveal the …

Electrohydrodynamic interaction between droplet pairs in a confined shear flow

S Santra, D Sen, S Das, S Chakraborty - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study deals with electrohydrodynamic interactions between two deformable droplets in
a confined shear flow. We have investigated the effect of the channel confinement and the …

Influence of pressure-dependent surface viscosity on dynamics of surfactant-laden drops in shear flow

ZY Luo, XL Shang, BF Bai - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We study numerically the dynamics of an insoluble surfactant-laden droplet in a simple
shear flow taking surface viscosity into account. The rheology of drop surface is modelled via …

Confinement effect on electrically induced dynamics of a droplet in shear flow

S Santra, S Mandal, S Chakraborty - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Deformation and breakup of droplets in confined shear flows have been attracting
increasing attention from the research community over the past few years, as attributable to …

Comparison of droplet-particle interaction on a stationary and a moving particle

G Wu, S Chen - Chemical Engineering Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Droplet-particle collision is commonly found in nature and industry. The collision of a moving
droplet against a fixed stationary particle has been investigated comprehensively, and the …

Ferrofluid droplets in planar extensional flows: Droplet shape and magnetization reveal novel rheological signatures of ferrofluid emulsions

AL Guilherme, IR Siqueira, LHP Cunha… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We present a three-dimensional computational study of the impact of external magnetic
fields on the dynamics of superparamagnetic ferrofluid droplets and rheology of dilute …

Influence of complex interfacial rheology on the thermocapillary migration of a surfactant-laden droplet in Poiseuille flow

S Das, S Chakraborty - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The effect of surface viscosity on the motion of a surfactant-laden droplet in the presence of a
non-isothermal Poiseuille flow is studied, both analytically and numerically. The presence of …

Progress on surfactant and interfacial transport phenomena in microchannels

LIU Langyu, ZHU Chunying, MA Youguang… - CIESC …, 2021 - hgxb.cip.com.cn
Surfactants play an important role in microfluidic applications, often accompanied by
dynamic interfacial tension. The research progress of multiphase flow containing surfactants …

Role of particle-laden interfaces in shear-induced deformation of colloidal droplets

ZY Luo, J Qi, BF Bai - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - cambridge.org
In this study, basing on the level-set and point-particle methods, we have developed a
numerical methodology for simulating the dynamics of colloidal droplets under flow …