Viscoelastic surfactant fluids filtration in porous media: A pore‐scale study

Y Li, C Dai, Y Wu, K Xu, M Zhao, Y Wang - AIChE Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the flow of viscoelastic surfactant (VES) solutions, an important type of
fracturing fluids for unconventional hydrocarbon recovery, through a diverging–converging …

A technical note on large normal-stress differences observed in a novel self-assembling functionalized dipeptide surfactant solution

OM Maklad, K McAulay, S Lerouge, DJ Adams… - Rheologica Acta, 2022 - Springer
A number of functionalised dipeptides self-assemble in water under specific conditions to
give micellar aggregates. The micellar aggregates formed depend on the exact molecular …

Frequency response analysis of the Bautista-Manero-Puig model with normal stress: analytical and numerical solution for large amplitudes

E Hernandez, F Bautista, JP García-Sandoval… - Rheologica Acta, 2024 - Springer
We derive explicit analytical expressions for the recurrence relations using the analytical
matrix method for frequency response and the Bautista-Manero-Puig model for complex …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale simulations of viscoelastic fluids in complex geometries using a finitely extensible nonlinear elastic transient network model

A Gómez-López, RO Vargas, A Mil-Martínez… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a novel implementation of a numerical scheme for predicting complex
flows of viscoelastic fluids using a finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) transient …

Reduction of clean fracturing fluid filtration loss by viscosity enhancement using nanoparticles: Is it feasible?

C Dai, Y Li, Q Xie, K Xu, Y Hu, Z Zhou, Y Wu - … Engineering Research and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fracturing fluid filtration loss is a significant research topic related to fracture propagation,
formation damage and the cost of hydraulic fracturing. To reduce the loss, nanoparticles …

A simple kinetic model for complex rheological fluids based on irreversible thermodynamics

JP García‐Sandoval, E Hernández, F Bautista… - AIChE …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we analyze the kinetics of the entanglement–disentanglement process of
complex fluids coupled to a rheological constitutive equation of state within an irreversible …