Critical Shear Rate of Polymer-Enhanced Hydraulic Fluids

Flammability Properties of Hydraulic Fluids

Complex Fluids and Hydraulic Fracturing.

Nearly 70 years old, hydraulic fracturing is a core technique for stimulating hydrocarbon production in a majority of oil and gas reservoirs. Complex fluids are implemented in nearly every step of the fracturing process, most significantly to generate and sustain fractures and transport and distribute proppant particles during and following fluid injection. An extremely wide range of complex fl...

Shear of polymer brushes

We have measured the normal, lateral and hydrodynamic forces that act between polymer-brush-bearing surfaces immersed in a good-solvent medium, both when stationary and when in motion with respect to each other. At low sliding velocities we find a very marked decrease in the frictional force between the surfaces, an effect interpreted in terms of a fluid interfacial layer resulting from the non...

Hydraulic jumps at boundaries in rotating fluids

We consider three-dimensional hydraulic jumps (shocks) propagating along boundaries in rotating fluids. This study is motivated by earlier work (Fedorov & Melville 1995), which dealt with the evolution to breaking of nonlinear Kelvin waves. We obtain the jump relations and derive an evolution equation for the jump as it propagates along the boundary. It is shown that after some initial adjustme...

Modeling the combined effect of surface roughness and shear rate on slip flow of simple fluids.

Molecular dynamics (MD) and continuum simulations are carried out to investigate the influence of shear rate and surface roughness on slip flow of a Newtonian fluid. For weak wall-fluid interaction energy, the nonlinear shear-rate dependence of the intrinsic slip length in the flow over an atomically flat surface is computed by MD simulations. We describe laminar flow away from a curved boundar...