Soft hydraulics: from Newtonian to complex fluid flows through compliant conduits

IC Christov - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Microfluidic devices manufactured from soft polymeric materials have emerged as a
paradigm for cheap, disposable and easy-to-prototype fluidic platforms for integrating …

Experimental study and modeling of final fracture conductivity during acid fracturing

H Mehrjoo, S Norouzi-Apourvari, H Jalalifar… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Successful acid fracturing operation could reduce formation damage and increase
production rate in a carbonate reservoir. Final fracture conductivity is a critical parameter that …

Effect of different types of stimulation fluids on fracture propagation behavior in naturally fractured carbonate rock through CT scan

B Gou, L Zhan, J Guo, R Zhang, C Zhou, L Wu… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Acid fracturing of carbonate rock starts with formation breakdown and fracture propagation
caused by stimulation fluids. The effectiveness of acid fracturing largely depends on the …

Experimental investigation on macroscopic behavior and microfluidic field of nonlinear flow in rough-walled artificial fracture models

P Guo, M Wang, M He, Y Wang, K Gao… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
The understanding of nonlinear flow in rough-walled rock fractures is critical for
underground engineering and geological sciences. The macroscopic behavior and …

Monte Carlo simulations of shear‐thinning flow in geological fractures

A Lenci, Y Méheust, M Putti… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The hydraulic behavior of fractured rocks under shear‐thinning flow is a challenging topic of
interest in several fields, related either to environmental remediation or to natural resources …

Relative permeability of two-phase fluid flow through rough fractures: the roles of fracture roughness and confining pressure

Y Wang, Z Zhang, X Liu, K Xue - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
The relative permeability of two-phase fluid flow through rough fractures was investigated by
conducting the triaxial two-phase fluid flow experiment on sandstone fractures. The relative …

Displacement flow of yield stress materials in annular spaces of variable cross section

PJT Espinoza, PR Varges, EC Rodrigues… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
We conducted an experimental study of a yield stress material being displaced upwardly at
controlled flow rate by a Newtonian fluid in an annular space whose external wall consists of …

Onset of Darcy–Bénard convection under throughflow of a shear-thinning fluid

D Petrolo, L Chiapponi, S Longo, M Celli… - Journal of Fluid …, 2020 - cambridge.org
We present an investigation on the onset of Darcy–Bénard instability in a two-dimensional
porous medium saturated with a non-Newtonian fluid and heated from below in the …

Experimental investigation on backflow of power-law fluids in planar fractures

A Lenci, L Chiapponi, S Longo, V Di Federico - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In hydrofracturing, we model the backflow of a non-Newtonian fluid in a single flat-walled
fracture of planar geometry and support our conceptualization with laboratory experiments …

Phase transition and fluid backflow during the non-injection period in the Ordos CCS project, China

Y Cai, H Lei, X Li, G Feng, Y Cui, B Bai… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
CO 2 phase transition and fluid interaction in the wellbore-reservoir system after shut-in are
two critical phenomena, which are crucial to predicting the long-term fate of CO 2 in a deep …