Fully developed flow of a drilling fluid between two rotating cylinders

Zhifu Zhou, Wei-Tao Wu and Mehrdad Massoudi

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2016, vol. 281, issue C, 266-277

Abstract: In this paper, we study the fully developed Couette flow of a drilling fluid, and explore the effects of concentration and shear-rate-dependent viscosity. The one-dimensional form of the governing equations, as well as the boundary conditions are made dimensionless and a parametric study is performed by varying the dimensionless numbers.

Keywords: Drilling mud; Drilling fluid; Non-Newtonian fluids; Suspension; Rheology; Variable viscosity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2016.01.059

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