Bingham's model in the oil and gas industry

IA Frigaard, KG Paso, PR de Souza Mendes - Rheologica Acta, 2017 - Springer
Yield stress fluid flows occur in a great many operations and unit processes within the oil
and gas industry. This paper reviews this usage within reservoir flows of heavy oil, drilling …

Two-layer displacement flow of miscible fluids with viscosity ratio: Experiments

A Etrati, K Alba, IA Frigaard - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate experimentally the density-unstable displacement flow of two miscible fluids
along an inclined pipe. This means that the flow is from the top to bottom of the pipe …

Dynamics of the removal of viscoplastic fluids from inclined pipes

K Alba, IA Frigaard - Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
The dynamics of the removal of a viscoplastic fluid by a Newtonian fluid is investigated
experimentally and theoretically in an inclined pipe based on our previous studies on near …

A two-layer model for buoyant inertial displacement flows in inclined pipes

A Etrati, IA Frigaard - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the inertial flows found in buoyant miscible displacements using a two-layer
model. From displacement flow experiments in inclined pipes, it has been observed that for …

Isodense displacement flow of viscoplastic fluids along a pipe

GVL Moisés, MF Naccache, K Alba… - Journal of Non-Newtonian …, 2016 - Elsevier
We present the results of an experimental study of isodense displacement of a yield stress
viscoplastic fluid by a miscible Newtonian one in a horizontal pipe. A central type …

A two-layer model for buoyant displacement flows in a channel with wall slip

SM Taghavi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
We study theoretically buoyant displacement flows of two generalized Newtonian fluids in a
two-dimensional (2-D) channel with wall slip. We assume that a pseudo-interface separates …

Buoyant displacement flow of immiscible fluids in inclined ducts: a theoretical approach

A Hasnain, K Alba - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We study the buoyant displacement flow of two immiscible Newtonian fluids in an inclined
duct (two-dimensional channel) theoretically. The fluids may have different viscosities. The …

Buoyant displacement flows in slightly non-uniform channels

R Mollaabbasi, SM Taghavi - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 - cambridge.org
We consider displacement flows in slightly diverging or converging plane channels. The two
fluids are miscible and buoyancy is significant. We assume that the channel is oriented close …

Density-stable displacement flow of immiscible fluids in inclined pipes

O Oladosu, A Hasnain, P Brown, I Frigaard, K Alba - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
We study experimentally the isoviscous displacement flow of two immiscible Newtonian
fluids in an inclined pipe. The less dense displacing fluid is placed above the denser …

Best practices for wellbore cleanup and displacements in openhole sand-control completions

M Beldongar, D Agee, A Kumar… - SPE Drilling & …, 2018 - onepetro.org
At some stage after drilling to target depth and before pumping the gravel-packing treatment
or before putting the well on production, the drilling fluid is typically displaced from the …