Viscoplastic fluid displacements in horizontal narrow eccentric annuli: Stratification and travelling wave solutions

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 605, Issue , 2008, Pages 293-327

  Carrasco Teja, M ^a   Frigaard, I A ^a   Seymour, B R ^a   Storey, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; RHEOLOGY; VISCOPLASTICITY;

DISPLACEMENT FLOW; HELE-SHAW APPROACH; VISCOPLASTIC FLUID;

LAMINAR FLOW;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; RHEOLOGY; VISCOPLASTICITY;

BUOYANCY; DISPLACEMENT; ECCENTRICITY; LAMINAR FLOW; MODELING; RHEOLOGY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; STRATIFICATION; VISCOPLASTICITY;

EID: 44449168162     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112008001535     Document Type: Article

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