Calculations for the Rheology of Foam Fracturing Fluid

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10.2991/icmse-15.2015.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Rheology; Foam fracturing fluid; Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase fluid model.

Abstract

Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow model was used to calculat the rheological properties of foam fracturing fluid. In the model, the foam fluid is treated as pseudoplastic fluid. And the calculation results of the model show that the non-Newtonian behavior of foam fracturing fluid is determined by the bubble phase, and there is almost no slip between liquid phase and bubble phase. The turbulent kinetic energy of each phase increases with increasing volume fraction of gas phase and has the largest value at the wall adjacent region. However, this two-phase fluid model is not suitable for foam fracturing fluid with gas volume fraction higher than 65%.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sun Xiao
AU  - Huashen Lin
PY  - 2015/12
DA  - 2015/12
TI  - Calculations for the Rheology of Foam Fracturing Fluid
BT  - Proceedings of the 2015 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Engineering
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 604
EP  - 607
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmse-15.2015.108
DO  - 10.2991/icmse-15.2015.108
ID  - Xiao2015/12
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