When the invasion percolation model is applied as a simplified model for the displacement of a viscous fluid by a less viscous one, the distribution of displaced mass follows two distinct universality classes, depending on the criteria used to stop the displacement. Here we study the distribution of mass for this process, in the case where four extraction wells are placed around a single inject...

Metal emulsions have been studied for several decades as a method of increasing the efficiency steelmaking process. This study was performed using water model, observable at room temperature, to compensate disadvantages high-temperature experiment, results which are difficult observe visually. As substitute metal-in-slag emulsions, experiments were conducted by dropping distilled into silicone ...

Asphalt is a visco-elastic material having properties of elastic solid at low temperature and viscous liquid at high temperature. Properties of asphalt binder depend upon temperature, rate of loading and aging conditions. Although asphalt binder is only 4-5 % of asphalt concrete mix by weight but it plays a vital role in defining the pavement performance. That is, pavement response is heavily d...

Flow within thick liquid films present owing to capillary effects in the pore space is of key importance in many multiphase flow applications in porous media, for example, drying or oil recovery processes. The viscous resistance to the flow is a key parameter for modelling fluid transport in such situations. It is well known for liquid films wetting the corners of tubes of polygonal cross-secti...

production of highly viscous tar sand bitumen using steam assisted gravity drainage (sagd) with a pair of horizontal wells has advantages over conventional steam flooding. this paper explores the use of artificial neural networks (anns) as an alternative to the traditional sagd simulation approach. feed forward, multi-layered neural network meta-models are trained through the back-error-propaga...

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The so-calledl split-drop method was developed to measure transtubular isotonic water reabsorption from tubular convolutions at kidney surfaces. In principle the metlhod involves intratubular injection of viscous castor oil in amounts stufficient to block intratubular flow rate; the oil column remains in place. Subse(Itently the oil coltumn is split into two oil columns by the injection of a sm...

There are many ferromagnetic particles dispersed in carrier oil in magnetorheological fluids. Assuming Newtonian motion, the forces between particles of different radius, including magnetic interaction, viscous force and contact interaction, are obtained, and the corresponding model for motion of particles is proposed. Under an external magnetic field, the microstructures in bidisperse magnetor...

Relative permeability and capillary pressure functions define how much oil can be recovered and at what rate. These functions, in turn, depend critically on the geometry and topology of the pore space, on the physical characteristics of the rock grains and the fluids, and on the conditions imposed by the recovery process. Therefore, imaging and characterizing the rock samples and the fluids can...