Settling behavior of particles in fiber-containing Herschel Bulkley fluid

Powder Technology

Volumn 301, Issue , 2016, Pages 782-793

  Elgaddafi, Rida ^a   Ahmed, Ramadan ^a   Growcock, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drag force; Fiber; Non Newtonian fluid; Settling; Solid particles; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DRAG; FIBERS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; HORIZONTAL WELLS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; OIL WELLS; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; REYNOLDS EQUATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RHEOLOGY; SPHERES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY; VIDEO CAMERAS; YIELD STRESS;

DRAG FORCES; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERFERENCES; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PARTICLE SETTLING VELOCITY; SETTLING; SOLID PARTICLES; SPHERICAL GLASS PARTICLES; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

POLYMER; XANTHAN;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FIBER; FLOW KINETICS; FLUID FLOW; HERSCHEL BULKLEY FLUID; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE TRANSITION; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84978881155     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2016.07.006     Document Type: Article

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