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Laminar and turbulent pipe flow of bentonite suspensions
- Source :
- Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 139:85-93
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to investigate rheology and hydrodynamic behavior of different mass concentration of bentonite suspensions in pipe flow. Bentonite suspensions exhibited shear thinning and yield stress non-Newtonian rheological behavior. Most of the data reported are for the laminar and turbulent flow, data are also included the start-up flow development. The axial velocity distribution was determined using a Ultrasonic Pulsed Doppler Velocimetry technique. The experimental results show a progressive destructuration of the suspensions in the entrance region due to the segregation of the structural elements of the fluid and tend to a steady state and a fully developed laminar pipe flow. In the majority of cases, axisymmetric flow is observed for both laminar and turbulent flow conditions. Also an asymmetry characterizes the axial velocity profiles in the laminar-turbulent transitional flow. In the laminar regime, the flow parameters were fitted by using the Herschel–Bulkley model. For the turbulent flow, the Dodge and Metzner model was applied to fit the experimental data.
- Subjects :
- Plug flow
Materials science
Turbulence
Thermodynamics
Laminar sublayer
Laminar flow
02 engineering and technology
Mechanics
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
Laminar flow reactor
Open-channel flow
Pipe flow
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
Flow separation
Fuel Technology
020401 chemical engineering
0103 physical sciences
0204 chemical engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09204105
- Volume :
- 139
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........f10c10127f2339e1342cfc13794e06ea