Power-law flow and hydrodynamic behaviour of biopolymer solutions in porous media

Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE Oilfield and Geothermal Chemistry Symposium, OGC 1980

Volumn , Issue , 1980, Pages 73-86

  Teeuw, Dirk ^a   Hesselink, F Theodore ^a  

^a Koninklijke Shell Explor P   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BIOPOLYMERS; HYDRODYNAMICS; OIL FIELDS; OILFIELD CHEMISTRY; POROUS MATERIALS; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOMETERS; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

BENTHEIM SANDSTONES; DYNAMIC EXPERIMENT; FLOW BEHAVIOURS; FLOW COEFFICIENTS; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; POLYMER PARTICLES; POWER LAW FLUID; VELOCITY PROFILES;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 84914824894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2523/8982-ms     Document Type: Conference Paper

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