Success of a drilling, workover or completion fluid can be directly attributed to its viscosity at the shear rate of interest. In practice, fluids are subjected to a wide range of shear rates; therefore, a thorough understanding of fluid rheology and the impact of shear is necessary to optimize fluid design. Ideally, high viscosity is desirable only under low shear rate conditions, and should d...

Nonequilibrium molecular-dynamics simulations are performed to compute the shear viscosities of a simple Lennard-Jones fluid across a wide range of densities and temperatures that span the liquid phase. It is found that the standard mode-coupling value of beta = 0.05 for the exponent of the strain rate power-law dependence (eta = eta0-eta1gammabeta) is only applicable in a very narrow region of...

We propose a finite-difference-based lattice Boltzmann model for dense binary mixtures based on the Enskog theory. The model is applicable to a mixture composed of two dense fluids with different shear viscosities. The macroscopic hydrodynamic and diffusion equations are derived from the model through the Chapmann-Enskog procedure. The model is also validated numerically.

A concept of accurate liquid viscosity sensing, using bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators, is proposed. The proposed BAW resonators use thin ferroelectric films with the dc field induced piezoelectric effect allowing for generation of pure longitudinal acoustic waves in the thickness excitation mode. This makes it possible to utilize exclusively shear liquid particle displacement at the resonat...

the present investigation entails a procedure by which the surface tension and viscosity of liquids could be redicted.to this end, capillary experiments were performed for porous media by utilizing fifteen different liquids and powders. the time of capillary rise to a certain known height of each liquid in a particular powder was recorded. two artificial neural networks (anns) were designed and...

This work introduces capillary flow in paper microfluidics that features a flow rate Q that is constant in time, t, and independent of the viscosity of liquid sample, µ liquid : Q≠f(t, µ liquid). Compared to conventional paper microfluidics, we enclose the paper in solid walls and add a long and narrow air vent as outlet of the capillary pump, such that the flow rate is dominated by the downstr...

We have examined both experimentally and theoretically a piezoelectric unimorph cantilever as a liquid viscosity-and-density sensor. The fabricated piezoelectric unimorph consisted of a PbO•ZrO2•TiO2 ~PZT! layer on a thin stainless-steel plate. In addition to a driving electrode, a sensing electrode was placed on top of the PZT layer, permitting the direct measurement of the resonance frequency...

Viscosity and density are two important physical parameters of liquid. Such parameters are widely used for label-free chemical detection. Conventional technologies employ acoustic wave sensors to detect viscosity and density. In these sensors, the liquid under test directly contacts with the surface of the sensor. The produced acoustic wave in the sensor leaks to the adjacent liquid layer, caus...

Experiments were conducted in a liquid-solid circulating fluidized bed with different viscous liquids and particles to study the hydrodynamics, average solid hold up and solid circulation rate. The effects of operating parameters, i.e., primary liquid flow rate in the riser, auxiliary liquid flow rate, total liquid flow rate and viscosity of the liquid were studied for solids of different densi...