Preventing buoyancy-driven flows of two Bingliam fluids in a closed pipe - Fluid rheology design for oilfield plug cementing

Journal of Engineering Mathematics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 327-348

  Frigaard, I A ^a   Crawshaw, J P ^b  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bingham fluids; Multi layer flow; No flow yield criteria; Stability; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; YIELD STRESS;

BINGHAM FLUIDS; MULTI-LAYER FLOWS; OILFIELD PLUG CEMENTING;

PIPE FLOW;

BINGHAM FLUID; BUOYANCY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PIPE FLOW; RHEOLOGY; STABILITY;

BUOYANCY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PIPE FLOW; RHEOLOGY; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033506682     PISSN: 00220833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004511113745     Document Type: Article

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