| Titre : | Modeling of placement of immiscible fluids of different rheology into a hydraulic fracture (2011) |
| Auteurs : | Alexander Lakhtychkin, Auteur ; Oleg Vinogradov, Auteur ; Dmitry Eskin, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | Industrial & engineering chemistry research (Vol. 50 N° 9, Mai 2011) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 5774–5782 |
| Note générale : | Chimie industrielle |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Tags : | Immiscible fluids |
| Résumé : | A model of consecutive placements of two different immiscible fluids, possessing different densities and rheological properties, into an expanding fracture is presented. Hydraulic fracturing technology, based on such a fluid placement, is expected to allow better fracture shape control. Mathematically, the problem is reduced to solving a two-dimensional second-order nonlinear partial differential equation describing pressure distribution in a semiellipsoid domain with moving boundaries. The level set method is used to track the interface between the fluids in time. Numerical examples of the placement of power-law fluids are presented, and the accuracy of the computations is investigated. |
| DEWEY : | 660 |
| ISSN : | 0888-5885 |
| En ligne : | http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie101914d |
