Investigation on tee junction erosion caused by sand-carrying fracturing fluid

L Yao, Y Liu, Z Xiao, Z Feng - Tribology International, 2023 - Elsevier
The high-speed flow of sand-carrying fracturing fluid through tee junctions causes severe
erosion and affects the safety of the fracturing operation. This study improves the traditional …

An optimized CFD-DEM method for particle collision and retention analysis of two-phase flow in a reduced-diameter pipe

L Yao, Y Liu, J Liu, Z Xiao, K Xie, H Cao, H Zhang - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
High-concentration solid-liquid two-phase flow causes particle erosion or accumulation at
the sudden change positions of flow channels, resulting in pipe leakage and tool failure. In …

Experimental and numerical study of free-falling streams of particles impacting an inclined surface

D Dodds, AAR Sarhan, J Naser - Experimental and Computational …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a detailed experimental and numerical analysis of free-falling particle
streams impacting a 45° inclined surface of differing materials. The particles used in this …

Particle approach to a stagnation point at a wall: Viscous damping and collision dynamics

Q Li, M Abbas, JF Morris - Physical Review Fluids, 2020 - APS
Highly resolved numerical simulations by the immersed boundary method are used to study
neutrally buoyant spherical particle motion when carried by fluid approaching a wall. The …

Experimental and Numerical Simulation Analyses of Elbow Erosion in Surface Process of Deepwater Gas Well Testing

QL Sun, L Xia, L Deng, JG Wang, GL Wang… - Journal of Failure …, 2024 - Springer
The gas production of offshore gas well testing is generally large, and sand production is
inevitable, which will cause erosion risk of testing pipeline. In this research, surface process …

Multiple impacts and multiple-compression process in the dynamics of granular chains

Y Feng, W Kang, D Ma, C Liu - Journal of …, 2019 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, we study the dynamics of one-dimensional chains composed of elastoplastic
beads. Three uniform chains, which were experimentally studied in the existing literature …

In-situ detection of single particle impact, erosion/corrosion and surface roughening

PR Birkin, R Lear, L Webster, L Powell, HL Martin - Wear, 2021 - Elsevier
Particle impact is technologically important and can cause significant damage to a surface.
Detecting the approach and impact of a particle would give key information on the process …

Viscous dissipation in the collision between a sphere and a textured wall

A Mongruel, P Gondret - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
A model is presented for the bouncing dynamics of a fluid-immersed sphere impacting
normally a textured wall with micropillars. By taking into account the hydrodynamic and …

Genesis of electric field assisted microparticle assemblage in a dielectric fluid

S Dutta, AK Singh, PSG Pattader… - Journal of Fluid …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Oscillatory motions of charged particles inside a liquid medium have been explored under
the influence of an electric field emulating field-induced particle-laden fluid flows. The …

Influence of a nearby hemisphere on the immersed on-wall collision dynamics of a sphere

H Wu, FL Yang - Journal of Mechanics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Systematic experiments were conducted to elucidate how the dynamics of a fully immersed
spherical pendulum in a normal approach to a wall may change with the presence of a third …