The efficient removal of cuttings from all types of wellbore poses a substantial challenge.
Hole cleaning (HC) depends on the physicochemical interplay between wellbore formations …

The growing advancement in drilling technology had necessitated the development of self-
destructive mud cake, which is composed of encapsulated thermochemical fluids (TCF) to …

This study analyses the impact of particle polydispersity using the Eulerian-Eulerian (EE)
and Lagrangian-Eulerian (LE) modelling approaches in the context of wellbore cleaning …

Elliptical particles settling in Bingham fluids in a confined, the vertical channel is studied
using the immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method to understand their sedimentation …

Efficient and optimistic drilling operation depends on a number of parameters and drilling
fluid (DF) additives is one of them. Traditional DF mud contains toxic chemical compound …

Cuttings removal out of the wellbore represents a real barrier for successful drilling
operations. The performance of hole cleaning is determined by several factors. The current …

The current article depicts the mixed convective flow of Graphene oxide and Clay
nanoparticles suspended nanofluid in a non-Darcy porous medium considering the effect of …

Quantum chemical calculations and mud filtration analysis were used to assess the
performance of three types of non-ionic surfactants as lubricating additives in synthetic …

The deep‐sea six‐stage centrifugal pump is an essential power source of the lifting system
that conveys slurry containing coarse particles. Emergency failure of the electric system can …

The main objectives of this paper are to study the cuttings settling velocity in drilling muds
and rising-bubbles-containing muds and to develop a prediction model suitable for both …